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What is a Tag?

  • Tags in our system allow users to categorize and organize entities effectively, while also providing the ability to assign weights for prioritization. They can drive notifications and downstream workflows, and users can configure tags, associate notifications based on Tags, and associate tags to specific properties.

Key Points

  • Versatile Labeling
    • Tags can be applied to Datastores, Profiles, Fields, Check's, and/or Anomalies.
  • Notification and Workflow Integration
    • Tags are utilized to drive notifications and downstream workflows, enabling users to stay informed and take appropriate actions.
  • Weight Assignment
    • Users can assign weights to Tags, allowing for prioritization and emphasis on specific Tags.
  • Property Association
    • Tags can be associated with specific properties, allowing for targeted actions and efficient management of entities across multiple datastores.

View Tags

  • Find the Tag section by clicking on Settings in the menu bar:

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  • Tags is now the default tab:

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  • View all the active Tags or click Add Tag in the upper right corner:

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Add a Tag

  • To add a Tag, start with navigating to the top right and find the Add Tag button.

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  • Clicking on the Add button will pop up a modal:

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  • Details:
    • Name your Tag
    • Select a Color:
      • Click into Hexadecimal number or select by clicking on the dropper to open a color picker
    • Enter a description, if desired
    • Select a Weight
      • The weight value directly correlates with the level of importance, where a higher weight indicates higher significance.
      • Ranges from -10 to 10

Applying a Tag

  • Once a Tag is created, it's ready to be associated with a Datastore, Profile, Check, Notification and ultimately an Anomaly.

Tag Inheritance

  • When a Tag is applied to a data asset, all the descendents of that data asset also receive the Tag.
    • For example, if a Tag named Critical is applied to a Datastore then all the Tables, Fields, and Checks under that Datastore also receive the Tag.

  • Likewise, if the Critical Tag is subsequently removed from one of the Tables in that Datastore, then all the Fields and Checks belonging to that Table will have the Critical Tag removed as well.

  • When a new data asset is created, it inherits the Tags from the owning data asset. For example, if a user creates a new Computed Table, it inherits all the Tags that are applied to the Datastore in which it is created.

Tagging Anomales

  • Anomalies also inherit Tags at the time they are created. They inherit all the Tags of all the associated failed checks.
  • However, anomalies are treated as metadata, not as data assets, for the purposes of tagging.
    • Thus Anomalies do not inherit subsequent tag changes from those checks. They only inherit checks one time - at creation time.
  • Tags can be directly applied to or removed from Anomalies at any time after creation.
Last update: September 29, 2023