Current name
GA
Governed tags
Governed tags is the current Databricks name, previously Tag policies (since August 2025).
Tag policies Governed tags
Account-level tags with built-in rules for consistency and control - admins define the allowed keys and values and control which users and groups can assign them to Unity Catalog objects.
- Each governed tag has a policy attached to it, which is a neat inversion of how it started: the policy used to be the product and the tag was the detail.
- They took roughly eight months to go from Public Preview to generally available, arriving in April 2026 after being announced in August 2025.
- As of August 2026 they can also assign themselves - a tag automation applies or removes governed tags on whatever matches your conditions, and you can describe the rule to Genie in plain language.
Limitations: Hard caps of 1,000 governed tags per account and 500 allowed values per tag, with keys and values limited to 256 characters; control characters and the characters * . / < > % & ? \ = are disallowed.
Open in REbricked →- Category
- Data governance
- Also known as
- Governed tag, Tag governance
- Verified
- 2026-08-20