Tagging is an important feature in Azure because it allows for organizing and categorizing resources in a logical and meaningful way. Tagging enables you to track the cost, usage, and ownership of resources, and it can also be used to enforce policies and compliance requirements.
Here are some common tags that organizations should use and the purpose of each tag:
- “Cost center” – This tag is used to track the cost of resources by cost center or department. This can be useful for reporting on costs and usage by cost center, and allocating costs to the appropriate department.
- “Criticality” – This tag is used to identify the criticality of a resource, such as high, medium, or low. This can be useful for identifying resources that are critical to the organization’s operations and for prioritizing resources for troubleshooting and maintenance.
- “Environment” – This tag is used to identify the environment a resource is in, such as development, testing, or production.
- “Owner” – This tag is used to identify the person or group responsible for a resource.
- “Project” – This tag is used to identify the project or initiative that a resource is associated with.
- “Service” – This tag is used to identify the service that a resource is supporting.
- “Deployment Method” – This tag is used to identify the method used to deploy a resource, such as manual, automated, or containerized. This can be useful for identifying resources that were deployed manually and may require additional review or testing.
- “Service Level Agreement (SLA)”: This tag can be used to indicate the service level agreement (SLA) that applies to a resource. This can be useful for identifying resources that have different SLAs and for monitoring the performance of resources against their SLAs.
- “Application”: This tag can be used to indicate the name of the application that a resource is associated with. This can be useful for identifying resources that belong to a specific application and for tracking the overall health of an application.
- “Region” – This tag is used to identify the region where a resource is located
- “Expiry” – This tag is used to identify the expiry date of a resource, this could be useful for resources that are temporary or for resources that are only used for a specific period of time.
Tagging is a flexible feature that allows organizations to create and use tags that align with their specific business needs. It is important to have a tagging strategy in place before creating resources in Azure, so that the tags are consistently applied and used.