How to govern Costs in Power Apps
A step-by-step guide to governing Costs in Power Apps with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Costs in Power Apps means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Power Apps 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 Power Apps
Connect Power Apps 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 Power Apps 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 Power Apps 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.
Power Apps controls for Costs
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Power Apps catalog on the Power Apps connector page.
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Power Apps requiring a premium license
Shows Power Apps with premium connectors, custom connectors, common data service etc.
Severity: Information -
Power Apps relying on grandfathered premium APIs
Apps still using grandfathered premium connectors will eventually require premium licenses.
Severity: Medium -
Connections using a premium API tier
Premium tier connectors require premium licenses for every consuming user.
Severity: Information -
Custom connectors classified as Premium
Premium-tier custom connectors require premium licensing for every consumer.
Severity: Information -
Power Pages sites on a trial
Trial sites expire and cannot be relied on long-term. Convert to production before content is built on top.
Severity: Medium -
Connections by API tier
Distribution of Power App connections across standard and premium API tiers.
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Power Apps using premium APIs
Power Apps split by whether they use premium API connectors.
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Power Apps by plan classification
Distribution of Power Apps across plan classifications (Standard, Premium, etc.).
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Custom connectors by tier
Custom connectors split by Standard vs Premium licensing tier.
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Solutions by install source
Distribution of solutions by where they came from (tenant-built, AppSource, Microsoft).
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Power Pages sites by type
Distribution of Power Pages sites across production and trial.
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Apps using premium APIs
Power Apps that use premium connectors and therefore require premium licensing.
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Premium connections
Connections used by Power Apps that require a premium license.
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Premium custom connectors
Custom connectors classified as Premium tier.
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AppSource solutions
Solutions installed from AppSource (third-party).
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Trial Power Pages sites
Power Pages sites running on a trial.
