Custom Monitor Tags

Tags are short labels you attach to monitors to organize, filter, and bulk-manage them. They're private to your company, freely created, color-coded for fast scanning, and auto-clean up when no monitor uses them — the same model Plex uses for collections.

Available to all paid plans, no per-tier limits.

How tags work

A tag is just a name (up to 40 characters) plus an automatically-assigned color. Tags live in a per-company dictionary, so "Production" in your company is unrelated to "Production" in another tenant. A monitor can wear any number of tags, and a tag can be worn by any number of monitors.

When you remove the last assignment of a tag — that is, when no monitor in your company has it anymore — the tag itself disappears from the dictionary. No housekeeping to do.

Adding tags to a monitor

1. Open any monitor's Edit modal (pencil icon on the row).
2. Find the Tags section in the right column.
3. Start typing in the "Type a tag name…" field.
4. Pick a suggestion to attach an existing tag, or click + Create "name" (or press Enter) to mint a new tag on the spot.
5. Repeat for as many tags as you want, then click Save Monitor.

Each chip in the picker has an × to remove it before saving. Backspace in the empty input also removes the rightmost chip — fast for keyboard editing.

Tag chips on the monitor list

Each tagged monitor displays its chips inline on the row, on the same line as the "Alerts To:" text. The chip uses the tag's color so a glance across the inventory tells you which monitors are production, which are customer-critical, which are scratch, and so on.

Recoloring a tag

Tags pick a color automatically the first time they're created (deterministic from the name, so "Production" always gets the same color). To change it:

1. Click any chip on the monitor list — a small color picker appears.
2. Click a swatch.
3. Every chip across every monitor row with that tag updates immediately. No reload needed.

The change persists to the database; the next page load shows the new color.

Filtering by tag

The Tags dropdown at the left of the filter bar opens a checklist of every tag in your company:

• Single click an option → replace the selection with just that one tag.
• Ctrl/Cmd + click → toggle a tag in or out of the selection without losing the others.
• Shift + click → select a range from the last clicked tag to this one.
• Letter keys → jump the highlight to the next tag whose name starts with that letter.
• Up/Down arrows + Space → keyboard navigation.

The trigger button shows the current state: "none", a single tag name, or "multiple" when more than one is picked. Click Apply to re-filter the inventory. The match logic is AND — a monitor must wear every selected tag to appear in the results.

Selected tags also show as colored pills in the active-filters row above the table. Clicking the × on a pill unchecks it in the dropdown locally; click Apply again to re-run the filter.

Bulk add or remove a tag

Need to attach "production" to every monitor matching the current filter view, or strip "test" from everything in *.staging? Use the ✏ Bulk button at the top right of the monitor table (next to Pause):

1. Filter the inventory down to the monitor set you want to act on.
2. Click ✏ Bulk.
3. In the Tags section, type or pick a tag.
4. Click + Add to all to attach the tag, or − Remove from all to detach it.
5. The page reloads with the change applied.

Bulk add is idempotent — monitors that already had the tag are left alone. Bulk remove is the same — monitors that didn't have the tag are unaffected. If removing the tag from this set drops its total assignments across the company to zero, the tag is auto-deleted from the dictionary.

The same modal also has an Alert Recipients section that lets you add or remove a recipient across the same filtered set in one click — see Alerts & Notifications for the group / stack alerting pattern that pairs tags with bulk recipient changes.

No separate management page

You won't find a "Manage Tags" page anywhere. There isn't one by design — tags exist exactly as long as some monitor wears them. To delete a tag entirely, remove it from every monitor and it cleans itself up. To rename, just edit any monitor: remove the old tag, add a new one with the desired name.

Frequently asked

Can two monitors share a tag with different colors?
No — the color is a property of the tag, not the assignment. Changing the color via one chip updates every chip showing that tag.

Is there a limit on how many tags I can create?
No per-plan limit. Tags are cheap; create as many as your team needs.

Can MSPs see their clients' tags?
Yes, when switched into a client account, the MSP sees and edits that client's tags just like the client would. Tags don't cross tenant boundaries when switching back.

What happens to tags if I delete a monitor?
The assignment is dropped automatically (foreign-key cascade). If the deleted monitor was the last one wearing a tag, the tag itself is auto-removed too.