When building a GCP perspective, should I use "tags" or "labels"?

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You will likely want to use labels in your GCP perspectives for categorization.

Labels in GCP are the equivalent of "tags" for other cloud providers.  GCP tags are intended to enable a user to configure network settings and are not intended to categorize your infrastructure.  

Below detail the process to create a perspective using either tags or labels:

Building Perspective Groups using Labels:

In most cases, you will want to build Perspective groups using Labels.  If you wish to build a Perspective to use Labels across the platform, follow the below instructions:

1. In Google, Label your resources.  Instructions can be found here:
   https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/labeling-resources#adding_or_updating_labels_to_existing_resources 
2. In CloudHealth, build your Perspective using Guided Search.  
   • Choose an Asset Type = BigQuery Billing Line Items
   • Choose a Discovery Method = Categorize
   • Choose a Field to Categorize By = tag + term name

 

Building Perspective Groups using Tags:
If you wish to build a Perspective to use Tags in your Asset reports or Policies, follow the below instructions for the Guided Search: 

1. In Google, Tag your resources.  Instructions can be found here: https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/add-remove-network-tags#adding_and_removing_tags
2. In CloudHealth, build your Perspective using Guided Search. 
   • Choose an Asset Type = GCP Taggable Asset (Does not gather associated assets)
   • Choose a Discovery Method = Categorize
   • Choose a Field to Categorize By = tag + term name