Tags

Overview

To view, search through, and manage your tags, navigate to the Settings > Tags page of your Sifflet application.

A tag is a label that you can assign to your Sifflet objects to help you manage, identify, organize, search for, and filter them. For example, you can create tags to categorize data assets by purpose, owner, environment, or any other criteria you see fit.

Tag Types

Regular Tags

Regular tags are fully customizable tags that you can manage and apply to your Sifflet objects to categorize them.

To help you get started with the implementation of a consistent and effective tagging strategy, Sifflet creates three regular tags by default on your Sifflet application at account creation time:

Tag Name	Use Case Example
Business Critical	Use this to tag business-critical datasets
Production	Use this to tag production datasets
Non-Production	Use this to tag non-production datasets

Regular tags show up across the Sifflet application without any specific icon before the name of the tag.

Classification Tags

Classification tags are tags that Sifflet automatically creates to help you categorize your Sifflet objects (columns, data assets, monitors, and data sources) according to some key characteristics.

Sifflet offers these classification tags:

Tag Name	Description	Use Case Example
PII	The PII tag flags columns that contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII), which can be used to identify an individual, such as a name, address, or social security number. This type of information is considered sensitive.	Flagging columns with a PII tag helps you ensure appropriate security measures are taken to protect this type of information against unauthorized access or data breaches.
Low Cardinality	The Low Cardinality tag flags columns that have a limited number of unique values in comparison to the total number of records in the dataset.	Flagging columns with a Low Cardinality tag helps you know how to query the table and ensure the appropriate multi-dimensional monitoring is configured on these columns.
Credit Card Number	The Credit Card Number tag flags columns that contain credit card numbers.
Crypto Wallet Number	The Crypto Wallet Number tag flags columns that contain unique identifiers assigned to cryptocurrency wallets, used for digital currency transactions.
Date	The Date tag flags columns that contain date values but do not have a date type.
Date of Birth	The Date of Birth tag flags columns that contain information about an individual's birth date.
Driver License Number	The Driver License Number tag flags columns that contain driver license numbers.
Email Address	The Email Address tag flags columns that contain email addresses.
Full Name	The Full Name tag flags columns that contain the complete names of individuals, including first name, middle name, and last name.
Gender	The Gender tag flags columns that contain information about an individual's gender.
IBAN	The IBAN tag flags columns that contain International Bank Account Numbers, used for identifying bank accounts across national borders.
ID	The ID tag flags columns that contain unique identifiers, which are used to uniquely identify information in a system.
IP Address	The IP Address tag flags columns that contain Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which are unique identifiers assigned to devices connected to the internet for network communication.
Login Details	The Login Details tag flags columns that contain information used for user authentication, including usernames and passwords.
Number	The Number tag flags columns that contain numeric values but do not have a numerical type.
Passport Number	The Passport Number tag flags columns that contain passport numbers.
Phone Number	The Phone Number tag flags columns that contain telephone numbers.
Place of Birth	The Place of Birth tag flags columns that contain information about the location where an individual was born.
Postal Code	The Postal Code tag flags columns that contain codes used to identify specific geographic areas.
Social Security Number	The Social Security Number tag flags columns that contain social security numbers.
Street Address	The Street Address tag flags columns that contain street addresses.
Tax Number	The Tax Number tag flags columns that contain tax numbers which are unique identifiers assigned by a government authority for tax purposes.
UUID	The UUID tag flags columns that contain universally unique identifiers, which are 128-bit values used to uniquely identify information in a system.
Vehicle Identification Number	The Vehicle Identification Number tag flags columns that contain vehicle identification numbers, which are unique identifiers assigned to vehicles for identification and tracking.

Sifflet manages classification tags, and you cannot edit or delete them.
You can, however, add classification tags to Sifflet objects either manually or through Sifflet AI Suggestions.

You can distinguish classification tags from regular tags across the Sifflet application by the star icon that shows up before the name of the tag.

Searching Through Tags

You can use the search bar at the top of the page to search through your tags. The search is based on your tag names.

Settings Tags Search — Searching Through Tags

Managing Tags

Create a Tag

You can only create regular tags. Sifflet automatically creates and manages classification tags.

To create a new tag, click the New tag button located at the right-hand side of your Tags page.

Settings Regular Tag Create — Creating a New Tag

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Do not add Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or other confidential or sensitive information in tags. Tags are accessible to all Sifflet users, and are not intended to be used to hold private or sensitive data.

Edit a Tag

You can only edit regular tags. Sifflet automatically manages classification tags.

To edit a tag, tick the tag checkbox on the left-hand side of your Tags page, then click the Edit button on the right-hand side of the page. Modify your tag name and/or description, then click the Save button to save your changes.

Settings Regular Tag Edit — Editing a Tag

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Do not add Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or other confidential or sensitive information in tags. Tags are accessible to all Sifflet users, and are not intended to be used to hold private or sensitive data.

Delete a Tag

You can only delete regular tags. Sifflet automatically manages classification tags.

To delete a tag, tick the tag checkbox on the left-hand side of your Tags page, then click the Delete button on the right-hand side of the page. Click the Ok button to go ahead with the deletion of your tag.

Settings Regular Tag Delete — Deleting a Tag

Using Tags

You can manually add and remove regular and classification tags to the following Sifflet objects:

Manually Adding a Tag — Manually Adding Tags

You can also add classification tags to Tables & Views assets' fields through AI Suggestions.

Adding Classification Tags Through AI Suggestions