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Once your catalog has owners assigned, Cortex gives you several ways to slice that data: by individual, by team, or across a team hierarchy. This page covers how to find the entities you own, filter by team, and remove ownership that’s no longer accurate.

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Viewing an entity’s owners

When viewing an entity, the owners appear in the metadata bar on the right side of the page:
The Owners section in an entity's metadata sidebar.
If the entity is owned by a team, click the team name to open the team’s entity page, which lists its members and owned entities. If owned by an individual, Cortex displays the user’s email. If an owner was inherited from a parent entity, click the inheritance chain icon next to it to see where it came from. For information on assigning owners, refer to Assigning owners to entities.

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Finding entities without owners

There are a few ways to find entities in your catalog that don’t have owners yet:
  • Use the Ownership tool to see unowned entities and Cortex’s automated recommendations for owners.
  • In your catalogs, click Filter and select Unowned entities.
  • View the Executive report, which lists unowned entities.
  • Run an Ownership Verification Scorecard, which adds tasks to your homepage for any entities still missing owners.

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Viewing entities you own

  1. From the main sidebar, expand Catalog, then select All entities.
  2. Select the Mine tab. A list of entities you own is displayed.
    The Entities page showing all entities owned by the user.

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Viewing child team ownership

  1. From the main sidebar, expand Catalog, then select All entities.
  2. Select the Mine tab.
  3. At the top of the list, click Display.
  4. Toggle on Include child teams.
    The 'Include child teams' option, toggle on.
  5. Click Done.

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Viewing a team’s owned entities

  1. From the main sidebar, expand Catalog, then select All entities.
  2. Select the All tab.
  3. At the top of the list, click Filter.
  4. In the Filter window, click Teams.
    The 'Teams' option in the Filter window.
  5. Select a team or teams from the drop-down menu.
  6. Click Apply.

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Viewing entities owned by all teams within a hierarchy

Teams can exist within hierarchies. To view a list of entities owned by the parent team and all children teams in the hierarchy:
  1. Navigate to the parent team’s page.
  2. Select the Entities tab.
    The 'Entities' tab on a team's page.
  3. At the top of the list, click Display.
  4. Toggle on Inherited Children.
    The 'Inherited children' option toggled on.
  5. Click Done.
The list displays all entities owned by the parent and its children teams. Note that this setting does not persist when you navigate away from the page.

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Removing ownership

To remove an owner, use the same method you used to add them.

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Removing ownership via the Cortex UI

  1. Navigate to the entity’s details page.
  2. In the upper right corner, click Configure entity.
  3. In the left sidebar, select Owners.
  4. Locate the team or user you want to remove, then click the trash icon. The Confirm team owner deletion modal opens.
  5. Click Delete.

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Removing ownership via YAML

  • Update the x-cortex-owners block in your YAML to reference only the correct teams or individuals. Ensure that all referenced teams actually exist in Cortex.
  • If using GitOps, make sure the YAML is updated and merged to your main branch, then allow Cortex to re-sync. This updates the ownership in the UI to match the YAML.

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Removing ownership via API

Use the Create or update entity API to completely replace the entity YAML, or the Create or patch entity API to remove one or more owner and not change the rest of the entity YAML.

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Removing inherited ownership

  • Check if the entity is a child of a domain, or of an entity linked by a relationship type, with ownership inheritance enabled. If so, the parent’s owners may be appended to the entity.
  • To remove inherited owners, edit the domain or parent’s owner inheritance setting (for example, change it from APPEND to NONE).
Last modified on October 7, 2026