Governance
Governance is the dashboard's compliance view: where the rules defined by an environment's Policies are actually being violated, right now.
What You Can See
- Policy Violations: operations that breached an active Policy, grouped by the kind of rule broken, for example a topic naming convention. Violations are reported by the Gateway that saw them, for policies in both Enforce and Audit mode, and are attributed to the policy attached to the Virtual Cluster the request went through.
- Quota Breaches: reserved for subscriptions or principals exceeding a configured Quota.
Note
Gateways do not yet emit quota telemetry, so the Quota Breaches card stays empty even when Kafka is actively throttling a client. To spot throttling today, check the cluster's Quotas tab for the limits in effect and watch clients for THROTTLING_QUOTA_EXCEEDED.
When to Use It
A policy violation shown here means something is out of compliance today, not a historical log entry. Use it to catch drift, for example a topic created without the naming convention a Policy requires, before it becomes an outage or a support ticket. The same breaches also arrive as Policy & quota notifications in your Inbox. For a historical record of who changed what, see Audit Log instead.