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Cloudaware Tag Analyzer allows to review the tagging coverage across all clouds and tag resources directly from Cloudaware account. |
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To tag AWS resources from Cloudaware, download Cloudaware Tagging policy: Admin → AWS Accounts → ADD AMAZON ACCOUNT → Using Access & Secret Keys → select Tagging in 'Please use one of those'. Review and apply the policy.
Azure
To tag Azure resources from Cloudaware, use the Tag Contributor role. Learn how to assign this role to Cloudaware here (see ‘10 - Tagging Permissions for Cloudaware (optional)’).
You can create a custom role* in your Azure portal using CLI or Rest API *to define the scope of provided permissions on tagging (see 'Custom Role For Tagging'). The role should include a 'modify' permission granted for all resource types (e.g., Azure Virtual Machine) you would like to be able to tag in Cloudaware. Assign the role to Cloudaware.
*To be able to create custom roles in Azure portal UI, your organization needs Azure AD Premium P1 or P2.
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To tag GCP resources from Cloudaware, ensure that the permissions for labels are in place on a custom role created for and assigned to Cloudaware.
Billing Tags: Google Cloud Platform does not provide the cost data split by instance out of the box. In order for Cloudaware to display the cost on an instance level, every GCE instance in your environment needs to have a tag (e.g. instance-name: actual-name-of-this-instance) applied.
Tag Analyzer
1. Log in to your Cloudaware account → Tag Analyzer
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Data Type: Text
Field Label: tag name (format: companyname_tagname)
Length: 255
'Field Name' is populated automatically. Remove the API Name input by default (1) and replace it by the one in the format caTag_tagname (see the example below)
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5. Click Next → select 'Visible to all' → Next → Save.
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the tab 'TAGS' on a resource → + ADD TAG
Tags With Blank Values
In cases when tags with bank values are applied in AWS Console, Cloudaware Tag Analyzer may detect them as Tagged Objects showing empty values. Create two list views to observe the difference.
Cloudaware Navigator → AWS EC2 Instances → Custom Views (on the left) → + (Create New View) → Query Mode → copy the queries below → Save View
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Query sample for No Tag
Replace TAGNAME with your Tag Name:
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`Deleted From AWS` equals null and `Tags JSON`[$["TAGNAME"]] equals null -> `Instance Name or ID`, `Account`.`Account Name` as "Account", `Application Tier`.`Application`.`Name` as "Application", `Tags JSON`[$["TAGNAME"]] as "Tag: 'TAGNAME'", `Tags` |
Query sample for Tag <Name> is empty
Replace TAGNAME with your Tag Name:
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