# Microsoft Purview

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-purview/  
**Website:** https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/microsoft-purview  
**APIs profiled:** 44

Microsoft Purview is a comprehensive data governance service that helps organizations discover, catalog, classify, and manage their data estate across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments.

## Kin Score — 57.6 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 57.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 85.2 |
| Contract Quality | 71.2 |
| Governance | 26.5 |
| Contract Governance | 26.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 76.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 38.6 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (44)

- **Microsoft Purview Accounts API** — Operations for managing Purview accounts
- **Microsoft Purview Approval API** — Operations for approving or rejecting workflow tasks
- **Microsoft Purview Business Domains API** — Operations for managing business domains
- **Microsoft Purview Cases API** — Operations for managing eDiscovery cases
- **Microsoft Purview Classification Rules API** — Operations for managing classification rules
- **Microsoft Purview Critical Data Elements API** — Operations for managing critical data elements
- **Microsoft Purview Custodians API** — Operations for managing custodians within cases
- **Microsoft Purview Data Products API** — Operations for managing data products
- **Microsoft Purview Data Profiling API** — Operations for data profiling operations
- **Microsoft Purview Data Quality Rules API** — Operations for managing data quality rules
- **Microsoft Purview Data Quality Scans API** — Operations for running data quality scans
- **Microsoft Purview Data Quality Scores API** — Operations for retrieving data quality scores
- **Microsoft Purview Data Sources API** — Operations for managing data source registrations
- **Microsoft Purview Discovery API** — Operations for searching and discovering data assets
- **Microsoft Purview DLP Policies API** — Operations for evaluating DLP policies on content
- **Microsoft Purview Entity API** — Operations for managing catalog entities
- **Microsoft Purview Glossary API** — Operations for managing glossary terms, categories, and assignments
- **Microsoft Purview Glossary Terms API** — Operations for managing glossary terms in the unified catalog
- **Microsoft Purview Label Policy Settings API** — Operations for managing label policy settings
- **Microsoft Purview Legal Holds API** — Operations for managing legal holds
- **Microsoft Purview Lineage API** — Operations for tracking data lineage
- **Microsoft Purview Metadata Policy API** — Operations for managing metadata policies
- **Microsoft Purview Metadata Roles API** — Operations for managing metadata roles
- **Microsoft Purview OKRs API** — Operations for managing Objectives and Key Results
- **Microsoft Purview Operations API** — Operations available on the Purview resource provider
- **Microsoft Purview Private Endpoint Connections API** — Operations for managing private endpoint connections
- **Microsoft Purview Protection Scopes API** — Operations for computing protection scopes
- **Microsoft Purview Relationship API** — Operations for managing relationships between entities
- **Microsoft Purview Retention Event Types API** — Operations for managing retention event types
- **Microsoft Purview Retention Events API** — Operations for managing retention events
- **Microsoft Purview Retention Labels API** — Operations for managing retention labels
- **Microsoft Purview Review Sets API** — Operations for managing review sets
- **Microsoft Purview Scan Result API** — Operations for running scans and viewing scan results
- **Microsoft Purview Scan Rulesets API** — Operations for managing scan rulesets
- **Microsoft Purview Scans API** — Operations for managing scan configurations
- **Microsoft Purview Searches API** — Operations for managing eDiscovery searches
- **Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels API** — Operations for accessing tenant-level sensitivity labels
- **Microsoft Purview Triggers API** — Operations for managing scan triggers and schedules
- **Microsoft Purview Type API** — Operations for managing type definitions
- **Microsoft Purview User Requests API** — Operations for submitting user requests
- …and 4 more, listed in full on the page.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Microsoft Purview MCP Server** — First-party Microsoft MCP server for Purview Data Lifecycle Management diagnostics. Local stdio server (TypeScript, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk) that authenticates to Exchange Onl...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Purview Agentic Access** — 214 operations · 127 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Microsoft Purview Authentication** — oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Microsoft Purview Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Microsoft Purview Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Purview Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Compliance, Data Catalog, Data Classification, Data Governance, Data Loss Prevention, Information Protection

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-purview/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.