Are Proxmox UI tags only for filtering, or do they have other functionality?

[choidazzi]

Hi,

I've been using tags on VMs and containers in the Proxmox UI, but I'm not sure if I'm getting the full picture of what they can do.

From what I can tell, tags seem to be purely for visual organization — filtering and searching in the resource tree. But I wanted to check: is that really all they do?

Specifically, I'm wondering:
- Are tags only for filtering/searching in the UI, or do they have any functional effect?

Thanks in advance!

 

[a.bied-charreton]

Hello, tags are purely for organization purposes, all you can do with them in the PVE UI is filter/search/organize.

They are however exposed by the API (/nodes/{node}/qemu, /cluster/resources), meaning you may use them in your own scripts if you have a use for that.

 

[rahman]

It should be much more useful if PVE tags could be visible on PBS side. Then we could use them for filtering for Sync/Prune jobs etc. I wonder if its easy to implement it.