Confluence Data Classification Without Guard
Sentinel Vault is a Confluence Cloud app that seals files and page sections, and version 6 gives every page a data classification level whether or not you pay for Atlassian Guard Premium. In January 2025 an admin called Adam asked the Atlassian Community a very reasonable question. He'd found Atlassian's article on setting a default classification level for a space, gone to his space settings,…
Atlassian released Sentinel Vault, a free Confluence Cloud app that classifies files and page sections without requiring the Atlassian Guard Premium subscription. Although Atlassian's official guidance claims data classification is exclusive to Guard Premium, Sentinel Vault offers this functionality for free for up to 10 users or $1,000 annually for 100 users.
The app automatically detects Confluence's published classification levels, using them if available or its own four-tiered scheme if not. The levels—Public, Internal, Confidential, and Restricted—can be renamed, recolored, or expanded to eight tiers. Site admins can enable classification through Confluence administration, and Jira Service Management Assets integration allows importing custom levels.
Sentinel Vault's default classification levels are then applied to pages, with space defaults overriding individual page levels. However, a space admin can set a space-level default classification only if the Allow space admins to force-unseal setting is enabled in Site settings. If disabled, only site admins can set space defaults.
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