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A healthy CMDB, based on health benchmarks in an organization, is essential to an effective and continuous use of the product. Health indicators such as duplicate CIs, required CI fields, and audits are evaluated and aggregated into health scores at the class, health group, and service levels. CMDB Health also provides a framework for applying standardized CI remediation.

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Explore[Omitted image "bus-explore.svg"] Alt text:Explore the KPIs and metrics that are evaluated for health, and the health results dashboards.	Configure[Omitted image "bus-sdlc.svg"] Alt text:Select the health metric to monitor and configure any associated rules.	Use CMDB Health in a workspace[Omitted image "bus-news.svg"] Alt text:Access CMDB Health dashboards and related tasks in CMDB Workspaceor in Service Graph Workspace.
Remediate[Omitted image "bus-explore-careers.svg"] Alt text:Create and apply remediation rules to CIs that failed health tests.	Track processes[Omitted image "bus-root-cause-issue-resolution.svg"] Alt text:Use logging and other troubleshooting methods to resolve issues with CMDB Health processes.	Reference[Omitted image "bus-learn.svg"] Alt text:Details about properties, scheduled jobs, and tables, used by CMDB Health, and domain separation.

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Exploring CMDB Health
Learn more about CMDB Health and review the benefits it can provide for users in your organization.
CMDB Health experience in CMDB Workspace and in Service Graph Workspace
View CMDB Health dashboards and use other CMDB Health-related features in CMDB Workspaceand in Service Graph Workspace.
View CMDB Health Dashboard
The CMDB Health Dashboard serves as a central location to view detailed health reports for your CMDB at a glance. Also, it provides functions to remediate issues that CMDB Health detected, to improve CMDB health.
View relationships health
View health scores for relationship health such as orphan, stale, and duplicate relationships, in the Relationship Health Dashboard.
View CI health
View CMDB Health report for an individual CI, on the CIs form in CMDB Workspaceor in Service Graph Workspace.
Create a CMDB remediation rule
A CMDB remediation rule is associated with a task that was created for a failed CMDB health test. A CMDB remediation rule is applied automatically or manually to execute a remediation workflow that can, for example, delete stale CIs.
CMDB Health process tracking and troubleshooting
Use the following information to track and resolve issues with the CMDB Health processes.
CMDB Health reference
Reference topics provide additional information about the KPIs and metrics that CMDB Health uses and about tables, scheduled jobs, and properties that are used by CMDB Health.

Parent Topic:Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

title	CMDB Health
description	A healthy CMDB, based on health benchmarks in an organization, is essential to an effective and continuous use of the product. Health indicators such as duplicate CIs, required CI fields, and audits are evaluated and aggregated into health scores at the class, health group, and service levels. CMDB Health also provides a framework for applying standardized CI remediation.
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product	Configuration Management Database \(CMDB\)
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topic_type	concept
last_updated	2026-09-10
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breadcrumb	Configuration Management Database \(CMDB\)Configuration ManagementExtend ServiceNow AI Platform capabilities