Asset Identification and Management

You can tag cloud resources to manage them more easily.

Scenario

If your system uses multiple HUAWEI CLOUD services, you can add tags to the resource instances of these services (for CDM, add tags to clusters). The tags will be included in the charging data records (CDRs) generated for the services and instances. If your system is composed of multiple applications, setting the same tag for all resource instances used for each application helps you easily analyze resource usage and costs.

In CDM, you can add tags to identify and classify clusters. If you add tags to a cluster, CDRs generated by the requests for this cluster will contain these tags. Using the tags, you can classify CDRs for detailed cost analysis. For example, if a department uses a cluster, you can add the department name to the cluster as a tag. In this manner, you can analyze the department's development costs based on the CDR that contains the tag.

A tag consists of a key and a value. The key and value can exist in either sequence in a tag. A cluster can have a maximum of 10 tags. Each key is unique among all tags of a cluster, whereas values can be repetitive or blank.