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Tags

What’s a Slingshot tag? A group and value(s) make a tag. The group is the category or bucket. Groups are created first, because values must belong to a group. Values are items in the category.

For example, Fraud is the group (category) and check is a value (item in the category).

Slingshot tags give you the flexibility to create custom cost groupings to segment your costs. For example, break down costs by cost centers that do not correlate to lines of business (LOBs), or divy things up by project or team. Apply tags to databases, warehouses, or users. The choice is yours. Custom tags expand these options by creating more groups. Need more granular views? Select a tag or group of tags for filtered dashboard views.

With Slingshot Tags, you’re able to tag users, warehouses, and databases to be able to do cost attribution not only for compute, but storage and serverless costs too.

Example tag groups: Example Tags

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Slingshot splits Compute tags into warehouses or Snowflake users. This provides you with the option to view detailed costs of a single asset type, in this case warehouse tags or grouped Snowflake users tags.

See applied tags in action on the Cost analysis dashboard, Cost breakdown report, and Usage analysis dashboard.

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You can have as many tags on an object as you want. Due to cost attribution, you can only have one tag value type per group on an object (give an example - the tag value color - could only be one color at a time).

Make sure you have the right permissions to create or assign tags.

  • Tenant admins create tags and assign objects to LOBs.
  • Warehouse owners assign tags to Snowflake objects.

Example Use Case

An example use case for Slingshot Tags is to create tags for specific LOBs in your company. You can then assign these tags to specific Warehouses, Databases, or Snowflake Users to help categorize information in a Cost Breakdown report.

  1. Create tags for the categories you want to track.
  2. Assign tags to Warehouses, Databases, or Snowflake Users.
  3. Navigate to the Dashboards to view the Cost Breakdown report and confirm the information satisfies your business objectives.
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    You can also download the report as a CSV file.

Create Tags

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You’ll need Tenant admin permissions to create tags.

Let’s create some tags.

  1. Navigate to the Slingshot Tags page by using one of the following methods:
    • Select Configuration on the top level navigation bar.
    • Press Go to Slingshot Tags from the My Warehouses page.
  2. Select the Slingshot Tags card.
  3. Press the Create new tags button.
  4. Select Add new tag.
  5. Complete the Create a Slingshot Tag form by entering the Tag group name and Tag value(s). Separate multiple values with a comma.
  6. Press Save.
  7. A success message appears along with the new tag.

Assign Tags

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You’ll need Warehouse owner permissions to assign tags.

There are two ways to get where we need to go:

  1. Choose Configuration on the top level navigation bar or select Go to Slingshot Tags from the My Warehouse page.
  2. Select the Slingshot Tags card.
  3. From the Assign tab, check the box next to the warehouse(s) you’d like to assign tags. You’ll notice the Assign or modify tags button activates.
  4. Press the Assign or modify tags button.
  5. Select the tag(s) from the Assign or modify tags form.
  6. Click Assign.
  7. The tags appear in the Slingshot tags column for the selected object.

Edit Tags

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You’ll need Tenant admin permissions to edit tags.
  1. Press the pencil icon.
  2. Click Save.

Delete Tags

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You’ll need Tenant admin permissions to delete tags.
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Deleting tags removes the ability to filter or view those objects in Dashboards or Cost breakdown reports.

  1. Delete tags by pressing the X icon.
  2. The tag disappears.