There are three types of policies such as default policies, custom policies, and policies that are offered with vRealize Operations. What to read next Custom PoliciesYou can customize the default policy and base policies included with vRealize Operations for your own environment. You can then apply your custom policy to an individual object or groups of objects, such as the objects in a cluster, or virtual machines and hosts, or to a group that you create to include unique objects and specific criteria. Default Policy in vRealize OperationsThe default policy is a set of rules that applies to most of your objects. Policies Provided with vRealize OperationsvRealize Operations includes sets of policies that you can use to monitor your environment, or as the starting point to create your own policies. Parent topic: Configuring Policies