Governance guide

How to govern Declutter in Confluence

A step-by-step guide to governing Declutter in Confluence with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.

Definition

Governing Declutter 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 Declutter.

Steps

  1. 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.

  2. Detect with policies

    Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Declutter in Confluence to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 Declutter

Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Confluence catalog on the Confluence connector page.

  • Archive Confluence Space

    Archives a Confluence space after approval.

  • Archive Confluence Page

    Archives a Confluence page after approval.

  • Delete Personal Confluence Space

    Deletes a personal Confluence space after approval (refuses non-personal spaces).

  • Archive Confluence Space

    Archives a Confluence space after approval.

  • Archive Confluence Page

    Archives a Confluence page after approval.

  • Delete Personal Confluence Space

    Deletes a personal Confluence space after approval (refuses non-personal spaces).

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