Tags and tag coverage

Tags are the key-value labels your teams put on cloud resources. Costfluent reads them with every collection; it never writes them. Open Settings, then Tags.

Before you start

• Tag keys appear once a sync brings in tagged resources. Nothing creates a key in Costfluent: a key exists because a resource carries it.
• Deleting a tag key and setting a coverage alert need the Owner or Editor team role in a workspace your team can edit.

Read tag coverage

The Tag Coverage card shows, for the last 30 days:

• Overall Coverage: the share of cost on tagged resources;
• Tagged Spend and Untagged Spend;
• Top Tag Keys: the five keys carrying the most cost.

The same card appears on the Insights page.

Get an alert when coverage drops

1. On the Tag Coverage card, select Set Alert.
2. Enter an Alert Name and a Coverage Threshold in percent.
3. Create the alert.

Costfluent checks coverage every hour and raises the alert when it falls below the threshold. The alert appears in Alerts as Low tag coverage and as an in-product notification. See Alerts.

Review tag keys

Tag keys lists each key found in your cost data with its number of values and when it was last seen. Delete a key to make Costfluent forget it; it reappears on the next sync if your resources still carry it.

Use tags in reports and rules

• Filter or group a cost report by Tag and choose the Tag key; see Explore cost data.
• Match an allocation rule on a tag; see Segments and allocation rules.
• When the same meaning is spread over several keys, or some resources are untagged, a virtual tag gives every cost line one value.

Related

• Allocation model
• Virtual tags