Virtual tags explained

Virtual tags ensure consistent tagging strategies accross all providers and accounts. Its is a key element to multicloud cost reports and analysis.

Virtual tags, as any other tags rely on a tag key and a tag value.

Create Virtual Tags

On the left side menu, click on "Inventory & Visibility" to expand the sub-menu, then click on "Virtual Tags".

On the Virtual Tags page, click on "+ New Virtual Tag" on the top right corner.

On the popup that opens, you can enter a virtual tag key followed by virtual tag values.

For advanced virtual tagging strategies, click on "Define advanced rules".

The advanced rules configuration is, in a way, relatively similar to the configuration of the views that you maybe experienced in Holori.

Virtual tag example

For example, I only want to display my developement instances on my AWS and Azure accounts. However, the way my resources are tagged is inconsistent, on AWS they are tagged "dev" or "dvp" whereas on Azure they are tagged "developement". Here, the goal of the virtual tag is to create a layer on top of the existing tag that will unify all these pre-existing tags.