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. You can for instance 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, three regular tags are created 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 are automatically created by Sifflet to help you categorize your Sifflet objects (columns, data assets, monitors, and data sources) according to some key characteristics.

Sifflet currently offers two classification tags:

Tag Name	Use Case Example
PII	The PII (Personally Identifiable Information) tag is used to flag columns containing information that can be used to identify an individual, such as their name, address, social security number, or other personal information. This type of information is considered sensitive. Flagging these columns with a tag consequently 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 is used to flag columns that have a limited number of unique values in comparison to the total number of records in the dataset. This helps you know how to query the table and ensure the appropriate multi-dimensional monitoring is configured on these columns.

Tag Name

Use Case Example

PII

The PII (Personally Identifiable Information) tag is used to flag columns containing information that can be used to identify an individual, such as their name, address, social security number, or other personal information. This type of information is considered sensitive. Flagging these columns with a tag consequently 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 is used to flag columns that have a limited number of unique values in comparison to the total number of records in the dataset. This helps you know how to query the table and ensure the appropriate multi-dimensional monitoring is configured on these columns.

Classification tags are managed by Sifflet and cannot be edited nor deleted by users.
Classification tags can however be added to Sifflet objects by users either manually or through Sifflet AI Suggestions.

You can distinguish classification tags from regular tags across the Sifflet application thanks to the star icon that systematically 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. Classification tags are automatically created and managed by Sifflet.

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. Classification tags are automatically managed by Sifflet.

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. Classification tags are automatically managed by Sifflet.

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 below Sifflet objects:

Manually Adding a Tag — Manually Adding Tags

Classification tags can also be added to Tables & Views assets' fields through AI Suggestions.

Adding Classification Tags Through AI Suggestions