Tag your Aiven resources#

Tags can add metadata to Aiven resources like projects and services. Adding tags can be useful to categorize services, store specific information for your application or business, and group services or bills based on custom logic.

Tag details#

A tag consists of a string key and a single value and can be attached to any project or service.

Tag keys must consist of characters [A-Za-z0-9_-], are case sensitive, and must start with a letter. The maximum length for a key is 64 characters. Tag values can be at most 64 UTF-8 characters long.

Note

Any single Aiven resource can have at most 10 tags attached. Within a resource, the tag keys must be unique, meaning that they can’t be a duplicated.

You can use either the Aiven Console or Aiven client (or call the tag APIs by some other means) to use tags. Aiven-client version 2.14.0 or later is required for tagging support.

Add tags to resources in the Aiven Console#

Add tags to projects#

You can add billing reference tags or project tags to projects.

Billing reference tags are returned in the Invoice API. They are also displayed on PDF invoices for the project. Project tags are returned for resources in the API and are also displayed in the list of projects.

To add tags to a project:

  1. In the project, click Settings.

  2. Add a key and value in the Billing Reference Tags or Project Tags and click the add new tag icon.

  3. Click Save changes to save all of your tags. You can see the tags listed in the table on the Projects page.

Add tags to services#

To add tags to a service:

  1. On the Current services page, select the service that you want to tag.

  2. On the Overview page for the service in the Service Tags section, click Tag service.

  3. In the window that opens, add a key and value and click the add new tag icon.

  4. After you have added all of the tags, click Save changes. You can see the tags listed in the table on the Projects page.

Add and modify resource tags with the Aiven client#

Add and modify service tags#

  • Add new tags to a service:

    avn service tags update your-service --add-tag business_unit=sales --add-tag env=smoke_test

  • Modify or remove tags:

    avn service tags update your-service --add-tag env=production --remove-tag business_unit

  • List service tags:

    avn service tags list your-service
KEY  VALUE
===  ==========
env  production

  • Replace tags with a set of new ones, removing the old ones:

    avn service tags replace your-service --tag cost_center=U1345

avn service tags list your-service
KEY          VALUE
===========  =====
cost_center  U1345

Add and modify project tags#

The commands update, list and replace exist for tagging projects too, and work the same way:

  • Add tags to a project:

    avn project tags update --project your-project --add-tag business_unit=sales

  • Replace project tags:

    avn project tags replace --project your-project --tag env=smoke_test

  • List project tags:

    avn project tags list
KEY  VALUE
===  ==========
env  smoke_test