Power Automate

Rencore monitors Power Automate across 13 governance policies, 5 reports, and 6 inventories, detecting flow sprawl, DLP violations, and inactive automations automatically.

Published 16 May 2026 For M365 Product Owner, IT Admin, CISO

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Definition

Rencore Power Automate governance is a set of 13 policies, 5 reports, 4 segments, and 6 inventories that continuously audit Power Automate flows, connectors, and environments for sprawl, DLP compliance gaps, and operational risks. It detects flows using blocked connectors, flows without assigned owners, inactive automations consuming API capacity, and flows with excessive error rates.

See Power Automate in Rencore

Every Power Automate object Rencore discovers and inventories across your tenant.

The governance policies Rencore evaluates against Power Automate, with severity and category.

Built-in Power Automate reports and analytics views in Rencore.

The Power Automate governance dashboard, summarizing risks and status at a glance.

Step 1 of 4

36 governance capabilities: 6 inventories · 13 policies · 5 reports · 4 segments · 2 automations · 1 provisioning templates

Why govern Power Automate with Rencore

Control flow sprawl

Detect inactive flows without executions in 90+ days, flows without assigned owners, and flows created outside approved environments. Automate cleanup with approval workflows.

Enforce DLP and connector policies

Identify flows using connectors that violate DLP policies, flows connecting to external APIs outside the approved list, and flows with premium connectors assigned to users without proper licensing.

Monitor flow health

Find flows with excessive error rates, flows consuming disproportionate API capacity, and automations that run successfully but process no data. Reports show execution trends and connector usage.

What Rencore discovers

Rencore automatically inventories these Power Automate object types.

Environment

All Power Automate environments in your tenant

Flow

All Power Automate Flows in your tenant

Trigger

All Flow triggers used by your Flows

Action

All Flow Actions used by your Flows

Connection

All Flow connections used by your Flows

Run

All Flow Runs of your Flows

Power Automate inventory card in Rencore

How Power Automate governance works in Rencore

Rencore connects to Power Automate via the Power Platform API and inventories flows, connectors, environments, and execution history. Policies run on every scan cycle and flag sprawl, DLP compliance, and operational issues with severity levels and recommended actions.

Who uses Power Automate governance

M365 product owners use it to maintain a clean automation environment alongside their Teams and SharePoint governance. IT administrators track flow health and enforce connector policies. CISOs review DLP compliance to ensure flows don’t bypass data protection controls.

Getting started

Connect your Microsoft 365 tenant. Power Automate policies activate on first scan alongside your existing M365 governance. No per-environment configuration needed.

Policies

13 governance rules that detect violations and risks.

Severity Category

Long running Flows

Shows Flows that ran for a longer period (default 3 hours)

High Operation

Stopped Flows

Shows Flows that have stopped

High Sprawl

Flows requiring a premium license

Shows Flows with premium connectors, premium actions or premium triggers (e.g. common data service)

High Costs

Stopped Flows Last Week with errors

Shows Flows that have stopped

High Sprawl

Flows without runs

Shows Flows that have never been used. Warning: Flows with runs that happened before the first flow scan of Rencore Governance occurred will not be found.

Medium Sprawl

Flows not shared with specific service account

Shows all Flows that are not shared with a specified service account (adjust account in Policy)

Low Operation

Need a rule that isn't listed? Rencore's Policy Builder lets you create custom policies tailored to your organization.

Reports

5 analytics views and dashboards.

Flows by State

Shows count of Flows grouped by started or stopped state

Pie Chart · Operation

Flows with 10 or more actions

All complex flows

List · Uncategorized

Flows with 3 or more connections

All Flows that user combine many services

List · Uncategorized

Stopped Flows

All stopped Flows

List · Uncategorized

Flow runs in the last 30 days

All Flow runs that occurred in the last 30 days

List · Uncategorized

Automations

2 automated remediation workflows.

Send a combined email to all owners of a Flow

Send a single (combined) email to the owners of one Microsoft Power Automate Flow

Send one email per Flow owner

Send an email to every owner of one Microsoft Power Automate Flow and directly addresses the user by first and last name

Segments

4 data groupings for targeted filtering.

Flows with 10 or more actionsFlows with 3 or more connectionsStopped FlowsFlow runs in the last 30 days

Provisioning templates

1 resource creation templates.

Request Power Platform Environment

Submit a service request for the creation of a Power Platform environment through a standardised approval process

Frequently asked questions

What governance areas does Rencore cover?

Rencore covers six governance pillars: visibility and inventory across all Microsoft 365 services, ready-to-go policies with over 100 pre-built governance checks, compliance and audit evidence collection for regulatory requirements, extensibility and customization through custom policies and automations, cross-department collaboration with shared dashboards and role-based access, and AI and Copilot readiness to prepare tenants for secure AI adoption.

What is Rencore governance?

Rencore governance is a SaaS platform that continuously monitors your Microsoft 365 tenant for policy violations, configuration drift, and security risks across SharePoint, Teams, Power Platform, Copilot, and AI Agents. It automates compliance evidence collection, surfaces oversharing and sprawl, and provides actionable remediation workflows, reducing manual audit effort by up to 80%.

How do Rencore policies work?

Rencore ships with hundreds of pre-built policies that detect governance violations across every connector, oversharing, sprawl, cost overruns, security risks, and compliance gaps. Policies run on a continuous schedule, evaluate each discovered object against configurable rules, and flag violations with severity (High, Medium, Low), category, and a recommended action.

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