We have assigned a policy to our subscription, at the moment the chart states 3 categories compliant non-compliant other The other category is somewhat confusing, is it possible to change this such that a policy control is either compliant, non-compliant or perhaps exempted ?

MrFlinstone - Thanks for reaching out to us. On top of what Mohammed has said, The policy compliance chart in Azure Portal only shows three categories: compliant, non-compliant, and other. The "other" category represents resources that are not evaluated by the policy. However, you can use the "Disabled" effect in Azure Policy to exempt resources from a policy. When you assign a policy with the "Disabled" effect, the resources that match the policy are marked as compliant by default. You can also use the "AuditIfNotExists" effect to mark resources as compliant if they do not exist. This can be useful if you have resources that are not required for your compliance goals. Hope this helps. and please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions. If the above response was helpful, please feel free to "Accept as Answer" and click "Yes" so it can be beneficial to the community.

Azure policy how to remove/define the other category

MrFlinstone 481

We have assigned a policy to our subscription, at the moment the chart states 3 categories

compliant
non-compliant
other

The other category is somewhat confusing, is it possible to change this such that a policy control is either compliant, non-compliant or perhaps exempted ?

Mohammed Altamash Khan 2,081 Reputation points

2024-01-08T22:50:38.4866667+00:00

Can you please share the screenshot . I don't see "other" category in my azure portal
MrFlinstone 481 Reputation points

2024-01-09T09:42:47.91+00:00

Please see below. The grey section of the chart is the other category. The irony is that when the policy is duplicated, it changes to compliant or non-compliant only which is what I want to achieve.
Mohammed Altamash Khan 2,081 Reputation points

2024-01-09T12:42:51.1733333+00:00

If you’re seeing a category labeled as “OTHER”, it could be that the policy definitions under this category don’t fall under the standard categories provided by Azure. They might be custom policy definitions or policies related to resources that aren’t directly tied to the standard categories.

1 answer

Monalla-MSFT 11,961 Reputation points

2024-01-16T20:57:00.2833333+00:00

MrFlinstone - Thanks for reaching out to us. On top of what Mohammed has said, The policy compliance chart in Azure Portal only shows three categories: compliant, non-compliant, and other. The "other" category represents resources that are not evaluated by the policy. However, you can use the "Disabled" effect in Azure Policy to exempt resources from a policy. When you assign a policy with the "Disabled" effect, the resources that match the policy are marked as compliant by default. You can also use the "AuditIfNotExists" effect to mark resources as compliant if they do not exist. This can be useful if you have resources that are not required for your compliance goals. Hope this helps. and please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.

If the above response was helpful, please feel free to "Accept as Answer" and click "Yes" so it can be beneficial to the community.
Please sign in to rate this answer.
MrFlinstone 481 Reputation points

2024-01-17T12:03:14.94+00:00

What I have noticed is that when an exemption is created against a policy, on the compliance chart the exempted resources goes under the other category. Is there a way to change this such that it goes under the compliant category ?

Monalla-MSFT 11,961 Reputation points

2024-01-31T13:40:36.5833333+00:00

MrFlinstone - Unfortunately, there isn't a way to change at this moment to go under the compliant category. Hope that helps. If the above response was helpful, please feel free to "Accept as Answer" and click "Yes" so it can be beneficial to the community.

MrFlinstone 481 Reputation points

2024-02-05T23:04:07.61+00:00

Thank you for your explanation, regarding your comment above "however, you can use the "Disabled" effect in Azure Policy to exempt resources from a policy. When you assign a policy with the "Disabled" effect, the resources that match the policy are marked as compliant by default" In my case, the policy control is valid, however I would like to exempt certain resources because the risks are acceptable or perhaps the control doesn't apply to that resource in our environment, what I do is create an exemption which applies ONLY to the resource concerned any no other resource, in effect let us assume a policy control applies t0 100 resources, 90 comply and the remaining 10 that do not comply are part of a single resource group, what I find is that if i were to create an exemption based on the resource group that I would like to exempt, the figures do get skewed and the other category increases by 10. Is there a way to get those 10 exempted resources to be counted as compliant ?

Monalla-MSFT 11,961 Reputation points

2024-02-26T14:39:58+00:00

@MrFlinstone - Thanks for providing more details. Looks like we need to troubleshoot this further, we would like to put you in touch with a support engineer so you can receive 1:1 support for a deeper investigation on this.

We would need you to send us an email at AzCommunity@Microsoft.com by providing below details.

Subject : ATTN:Monika

Subscription ID

A link to this thread.

Please email us these details and we will work with you closely to get this issue taken care of and also post any findings here in the thread so the community can benefit from it.

Thanks in advance. Looking forward for your email.
Sign in to comment