Tags

A tag is a label you attach to servers, domains, monitors, and other resources so you can group and filter them later — useful for anyone who wants to see their infrastructure by team, customer, or environment instead of just by type.

#Overview

• A tag is a name and a colour you attach to the things you manage. Sixteen kinds of object can carry one — servers, domains, DNS zones, certificates, monitors, volumes, firewalls, load balancers, networks, IP addresses, contacts, watched domains, maintenance windows, dynamic IPs, automations and incidents.
• Because a tag can describe any mix of resources, it's the one way to group things that have nothing else in common — like everything that belongs to one customer, or everything that's customer-facing.
• Tags are managed under Settings → Tags, and applied from any object's own page.

#What a tag does once it exists

• Filters every list. Each list has a tag filter, so seeing everything with a given tag is one click on Servers, Domains, Monitors and the rest.
• Groups every report. Spend, renewals, uptime and other reports can be grouped by tag, which is how you work out what one project or customer costs you.
• Scopes a dashboard. A dashboard can be pointed at a single tag, so the same widgets report on just one slice of your infrastructure.

#Create a tag

1. Go to Settings → Tags.
2. Select New tag.
3. Give the tag a name.
4. Choose a colour, either Custom color or one of the preset options.
5. If the resources this tag describes have an uptime goal, set an Availability target (optional).
6. Select Save.

#Apply a tag to a resource

1. Open the resource you want to tag (for example, a server, domain, or monitor).
2. Find the Tags field on its page.
3. Select the tag you want from the list, or select Add to create a new one.
4. Your change saves automatically, or select Save changes if shown.

TipYou can also apply a tag in bulk by selecting multiple rows in a list and using Actions.

#Find everything with a tag

1. Open any list — for example, Servers, Domains, or Monitors.
2. Select Filter.
3. Choose the Tags filter and pick the tag you want.
4. The list now shows only resources carrying that tag.

#Report by tag

1. Open the report you want — for example, a spend or Uptime report.
2. Look for a grouping or Filter option.
3. Choose Tag as the grouping.
4. Review the totals or figures broken down by each tag.

#Set an uptime target

A tag can carry an Availability target (optional) — a percentage the resources wearing that tag are expected to meet. This is the only setting on a tag that does something on its own: the account review compares the measured uptime of everything with that tag against the target, and reports whether it was met.

NoteTags without a target are left out of that comparison. Most tags describe what something is, not what it must achieve, so this is the right default.

#Tips

• Tag what you'd actually want to filter by later — a tag applied to everything filters nothing.
• Keep the list of tag names small and consistent. Two people inventing separate versions of the same tag (like prod and production) splits your resources into two groups instead of one.
• Prefer tags that describe what a resource is for — the team, customer, or environment — rather than what it already is. Type, Provider, and location are already shown elsewhere.