---
title: "Policy recommendation scope"
description: "Reference for the PolicyRecommendation resource in Calico Cloud connected clusters that drives policy recommendations from observed namespace flows."
product: "Calico Cloud"
version: "v23.0.1"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/reference/resources/policyrecommendations"
---

# Policy recommendation scope

The policy recommendation scope is a collection of configuration options to control [policy recommendation](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/recommendations/policy-recommendations.md) in the web console.

To apply changes to this resource, use the following format:

```text
$ kubectl patch policyrecommendationscope default -p '{"spec":{"<parameter>":"<value>"}}'
```

**Example**

`$ kubectl patch policyrecommendationscope default -p '{"spec":{"interval":"5m"}}'`

## Definition

###

### Metadata

| Field | Description                                  | Accepted Values | Schema | Default |
| ----- | -------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ------ | ------- |
| name  | The name of the policy recommendation scope. | `default`       | string |         |

### Spec

| Field               | Description                                                                                      | Accepted Values | Schema | Default        |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------- | ------ | -------------- |
| Interval            | The frequency to create and refine policy recommendations.                                       |                 |        | 2.5m (minutes) |
| InitialLookback     | Start time to look at flow logs when first creating a policy recommendation.                     |                 |        | 24h (hours)    |
| StabilizationPeriod | Time that a recommended policy should remain unchanged so it is stable and ready to be enforced. |                 |        | 10m (minutes)  |

#### NamespaceSpec

| Field                            | Description                                            | Accepted Values  | Schema | Default                                                                                                                                                     |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| recStatus                        | Defines the policy recommendation engine status.       | Enabled/Disabled |        | Disabled                                                                                                                                                    |
| selector                         | Selects the namespaces for generating recommendations. |                  |        | `!(projectcalico.org/name starts with ''tigera-'') && !(projectcalico.org/name starts with ''calico-'') && !(projectcalico.org/name starts with ''kube-'')` |
| intraNamespacePassThroughTraffic | When true, sets all intra-namespace traffic to Pass    | true/false       |        | false                                                                                                                                                       |