Profile a single data resource

If you only want to profile a single data resource, you can do so by creating a project-level scan configuration.

Supported resources

The following resource types are supported:

• BigQuery table
• Cloud SQL table
• Cloud Storage bucket
• Vertex AI dataset
• Amazon S3 bucket
• Azure Blob Storage container

Differences between profiling a single data resource and standard profiling

Single-resource profiling differs from standard profiling in the following ways:

• Single-resource profiling is available only in project view.
• A single-resource discovery configuration lets you profile only one data resource. You can't add schedules to the configuration, but you can edit the catch-all schedule. You can't add filters to the schedule.
• You can create many single-resource discovery configurations for different data resources in a project. For each data resource, you can have only one single-resource discovery configuration.

Create a single-resource discovery configuration

To create a single-resource discovery configuration, see the instructions for the data that you want to profile:

• Profile BigQuery data in a single project
• Profile Cloud SQL data in a single project
• Profile Cloud Storage data in a single project
• Profile Vertex AI data in a single project
• Discovery for Amazon S3 data

When you're prompted to select the scope of the scan, select the single-resource option, and then enter the details of the resource.

Profile regeneration

Sensitive Data Protection reprofiles data as described in Frequency of data profile generation . You can customize the profiling frequency in your scan configuration by creating a schedule . To force the discovery service to reprofile your data, see Force a reprofile operation .