Abstract: Configuration management e.g., configuration validation and remediation (when necessary) of entities in a collective of databases and/or other machines or devices can be burdensome when vendor/cloud provider tools are used to manage the entities due to lack of control over the management. Rather than rely on vendor/cloud provider tools, instead configuration management is offloaded to, e.g., a local API and/or local machine, where configuration deviation detection from an expected configuration is locally determined and remediation needs may be prioritized so higher-priority collective entities are remediated first and other entities deferred. Local processing reduces burdens associated with entity remediation, such as in a cloud-hosted environment having many burdens associated with accessing cloud data and/or databases.