Governance guide

How to govern Sprawl in Gemini

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

Definition

Governing Sprawl in Gemini means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Gemini 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 Sprawl.

Steps

  1. Inventory Gemini

    Connect Gemini 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 Sprawl in Gemini to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. Review by owner and severity

    Use the Gemini 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.

Gemini controls for Sprawl

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

  • Gemini endpoint with no deployed models

    Detects model serving endpoints that have zero models deployed

    Severity: Medium
  • Gemini model with no deployments

    Detects models that are not deployed to any endpoint

    Severity: Low
  • Gemini dataset not updated in 180 days

    Detects datasets that have not been modified in the last 180 days

    Severity: Low
  • Gemini dataset without description

    Detects datasets that have no description set

    Severity: Low
  • Gemini engine with no connected data stores

    Detects Agent Builder engines that have zero data stores connected

    Severity: Medium
  • Gemini data store with no documents

    Detects data stores that contain zero indexed documents

    Severity: Low
  • Stopped Notebook Runtimes

    Vertex AI notebook runtimes currently in a stopped state

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