Today, Vantage is launching Tag Management Settings, giving customers a unified view of their virtual and provider-created cost allocation tags. With this launch, customers can now view all tag keys and values in a consolidated list. They can also see the tag source (e.g., AWS or Datadog) when selecting tags to filter or group by in areas of the application, like Cost Reports. Additionally, account owners now have new functionality to hide tag keys, making it easier to remove redundant or obsolete options.
The new Tag Management Settings page, where customers can manage all of their tag keys and values, including virtual tags
Vantage customers use tags to add metadata about usage and provide additional context into their associated costs. Virtual tags in Vantage help to enhance customers’ tagging strategies by enabling consistent cost tagging across providers, standardizing naming conventions for tag keys and values, and extending tag coverage to untagged usage from their providers. For many customers, the list of tag keys can become unwieldy, making it difficult to determine which tag should be used for reporting, which provider a tag key originates from, and which are virtual tags that aggregate all tags across providers. This requires Vantage users to spend additional time learning which tag keys to use—a process that is not scalable for large organizations.
Now, with the launch of Tag Management Settings, users can view all of their tag keys, including provider tags and virtual tags, in one place and manage their visibility in the Vantage console. Users with the Vantage “Owner” role can now identify all the tag keys that are essential for reporting, and hide those that do not need to be surfaced, making it easier for Vantage users to build reports using correct tag keys. Vantage will also now indicate which providers the tag key is associated with, and separate provider tags from virtual tags within the console.
These updates are now available to all users. To get started, users can navigate to the Tags page in the Settings section of the console. For more information on how to get started, see the Tagging documentation.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is being launched today?
Today, Vantage is launching Tag Management Settings, which allows customers to view all virtual and provider tags in a single place, as well as the ability to hide tag keys from other locations in the Vantage console, such as Cost Reports filters and group-by tag options.
2. Who can use these new features?
Only Vantage users with the Owner role can view the Tags Setting page, as well as edit the visibility of tag keys. Once a tag key is hidden, it will be hidden for all users in all workspaces outside the Tag Settings page.
3. What is the cost of using Tag Settings in Vantage?
There is no additional cost to use these new features.
4. What does hiding a tag key do? Why might I want to hide a tag key?
By hiding a tag key, that tag key will no longer appear in lists of tag keys outside the Tags Settings page in Vantage, such as Cost Reports or Resource Reports.
Hiding tag keys is useful when you have tags keys that cause confusion with other tag keys or are not in use. For example, a customer may have two tags related to environments: Env and Environment. They also have one Datadog environment tag. This is the perfect use case for using virtual tags in Vantage, which map all tag keys to an Environment virtual tag and standardizes across AWS and Datadog. The FinOps team then can choose to hide the Env and environment tag keys so that when they view a Cost Report, only the Environment virtual tag will be an option for other users to filter or group by.
5. How can I hide a tag key?
On the Tag Settings page, users can adjust the visibility of each tag key directly from the tabular list. A button is displayed next to each tag in the table, allowing users to toggle the visibility of that specific tag key.
6. Will I be able to use hidden tag keys to create virtual tags?
Yes, the only location that hidden tag keys will be usable in Vantage is for virtual tags, so that you can use any logic you want to create a virtual tag, or replace existing tag keys with a preferred virtual tag.
7. If I have a tag key that exists as both a provider tag and a virtual tag, how will that appear within Vantage?
When viewing the All Tags tab on the Tags Settings page, you’ll see a purple Vantage tag icon next to the tag key label. The Virtual Tags tab can be used to exclusively view your virtual tag configuration keys.
8. Can I retrieve all tag keys or hide tag keys from the Vantage API?
Yes. There are new API endpoints to list and hide or unhide your tags.
9. Will I be able to hide tag keys via Terraform?
At this time, there is no Terraform support for hiding tag keys.
10. How quickly is a tag updated after the visibility setting is toggled?
Once an Owner hides a tag key from the Tag Settings page, it will immediately be hidden in all other locations in Vantage.
11. What happens to Cost Reports that use a tag that is then hidden?
The report will continue to function as-is, and the hidden tag will show as selected, but the hidden tag will no longer be visible when making changes to the report.
12. Do hidden tags affect API requests?
No, you can still use hidden tags within API requests.
