The profile of a data asset includes generated metadata and statistics about its content. An asset profile helps you understand what actions to take to improve the data quality. You can see the profile on the asset's Profile page in a catalog or in a project. All catalog or project members can see data asset profiles.

You must have the Admin or Editor role in the project or catalog to create or update a profile for a structured data asset.

To manually create a profile for a structured data asset:

1. Go to the asset's Profile page. If necessary, you are prompted to enter your personal credentials for the locked data connections.
2. Optional. Click Select data classes, choose which data classes to include in the profile, and click Apply.
3. Click Create profile.

You can update an existing profile for a structured data asset when the data changes or when you want to change the data classes to include in the profile. If you exclude a data class that was previously assigned to a column, the updated profile shows Class excluded (from profile) for the respective column unless a different data class was assigned. You will also see Class excluded (from profile) for any columns where you don't have access to the assigned data class.