How to govern Costs in Confluence
A step-by-step guide to governing Costs in Confluence with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Costs in Confluence means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Confluence with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Costs.
Steps
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Inventory Confluence
Connect Confluence and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Costs in Confluence to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Confluence reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Confluence controls for Costs
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Confluence catalog on the Confluence connector page.
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Inactive Confluence user holding licensed seat
Detects active atlassian-type users with no login in the last 90 days.
Severity: Medium -
Confluence space with high attachment storage
Detects spaces with more than 1 GB of attachment storage.
Severity: Low -
External Confluence user inactive 30+ days
Detects active customer-type accounts that have not logged in for 30 days or more.
Severity: Medium -
Inactive Confluence app
Detects enabled apps with no audit-event activity in the last 90 days.
Severity: Low -
Top spaces by attachment storage
Shows spaces ranked by total attachment storage consumption.
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Users by last login month
Distribution of Confluence users grouped by the month of their last login.
