# Asset Health

Asset Health is a status applied to each asset - Healthy, Unhealthy, or N/A - so teams can quickly triage issues, prioritize fixes, and confidently use or share trusted content. Health is determined by active, [asset-based monitors](https://docs.datalogz.io/guides/monitors#asset-based-alerts) (e.g., refresh failures, staleness, orphaned ownership, similarity matches).

* **Healthy**: No active alerts, and relevant monitors are running for this asset type.
* **Unhealthy**: One or more active alerts and/or confirmed similarity/duplicate matches.
* N/A (No label): Monitors governing this asset type are turned off in the Monitor Catalog, so health can’t be assessed.

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### What to do when an asset is Unhealthy

When an asset is marked Unhealthy because of open alerts, decide whether to fix it (remediate issues to restore health) or archive it.&#x20;

To resolve the alerts, do the following:

1. Open the unhealthy asset.
2. Go to the **Active Alerts** tab to view current alerts
3. Assign an owner or share the alert, and resolve the issues.&#x20;

Once all alerts are closed, the asset’s health automatically updates to Healthy.

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### What to do when there are similar assets

When an asset is marked Unhealthy due to [similarity](/guides/bi-similarity.md)/duplication, choose one of three actions:

1. Review matches: Open the asset’s Similar Assets tab; review the similarity score, compare usage, ownership, and freshness.
2. Decide:
   * Accept similarity (keep both; mark as accepted).
   * Consolidate (select a canonical asset; redirect links and update ownership).
   * Archive (deprecate the duplicate per policy).
3. Finalize: Notify stakeholders, close the similarity alert, and the asset’s health will update automatically.

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