Last Updated Nov 12, 2025
Overview
Azure Data Catalog helps businesses uncover, organize, and enrich data using a centralized catalog and crowd-sourced input. While setup and onboarding can take time, it provides secure and straightforward data discovery for organizations working within the Azure environment. Overall, it is a practical solution for managing and accessing data efficiently.
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Starting Price
Custom
Azure Data Catalog Specifications
Policy and Document Management
Version Control and Change Tracking
Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Regulatory Compliance Tracking
What Is Azure Data Catalog?
Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalog designed to simplify data asset discovery within an organization. As a fully-managed cloud service, it provides a central registry where users can register, enrich, and understand diverse data sources. By enabling powerful search capabilities and crowd-sourced annotations, the platform empowers both technical and business users to unlock the value of previously hidden ‘dark data,’ bridging the gap between IT and business teams and significantly reducing the time spent searching for information.
Azure Data Catalog Pricing
Businesses can choose from the following Azure Data Catalog price plans:
- Free - $0/month
- Standard - $1/user/month
Disclaimer: The pricing is subject to change.
Azure Data Catalog Integrations
Who Is Azure Data Catalog For?
Azure Data Catalog is ideal for a wide range of industries and sectors, including:
- Information Technology (IT)
- Financial service
- Manufacturing
- Media and entertainment
- Travel
- Hospitality
- Transportation
Is Azure Data Catalog Right For You?
Azure Data Catalog is an ideal fit for organizations deeply integrated into the Microsoft Azure ecosystem seeking a foundational solution for data discovery. Its standout feature is the crowdsourcing of ‘tribal knowledge’, empowering all users to enrich metadata. It excels at democratizing data access for analysts, data scientists, and business users alike.
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Azure Data Catalog Features
This feature provides a centralized, searchable registry for all enterprise data assets. Users can quickly locate relevant data using keyword searches and filters, significantly reducing the time and effort spent hunting for information across disparate organizational silos and systems.
The catalog automatically extracts technical metadata like schemas and data types during registration. Users can then enrich these assets with descriptive information, such as business-friendly names, descriptions, and user-defined tags, making the data more understandable and valuable for analysis.
This collaborative feature allows any user—from data stewards to business analysts—to contribute their "tribal knowledge" by adding annotations, comments, and ratings to data assets. This creates a living, evolving repository of expertise that improves data literacy across the organization.
The Standard Edition enables robust governance through asset-level authorization. Data asset owners can control visibility, restricting who can discover specific datasets. This ensures that sensitive information is only accessible to authorized users, supporting compliance and security policies.
