Governance guide

How to govern Operation in Confluence

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

Definition

Governing Operation 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 Operation.

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 Operation 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 Operation

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

  • Confluence attachment larger than 50 MB

    Detects file attachments that exceed 50 MB in size.

    Severity: Medium
  • Confluence space without admin

    Detects active spaces that have no space administrator assigned.

    Severity: Medium
  • Confluence app outdated

    Detects enabled apps that have not been updated by the vendor in more than 365 days.

    Severity: Medium
  • Confluence page with high edit churn

    Detects current pages with more than 100 versions.

    Severity: Medium
  • Confluence group with excessive membership

    Detects groups with more than 100 members.

    Severity: Medium
  • Pages by space

    Shows the top spaces by page count.

  • Content created over time

    Shows the number of pages created per month over the last 12 months.

  • Most active spaces

    Shows spaces with the highest page count.

  • Pages created per month

    Number of Confluence pages created per month over the last 12 months.

  • Outdated Confluence apps

    Shows enabled apps that have not been updated by the vendor in over a year.

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