diff --git a/content/en/getting_started/tagging/_index.md b/content/en/getting_started/tagging/_index.md index 40bbd56aed3..b390adb40b6 100644 --- a/content/en/getting_started/tagging/_index.md +++ b/content/en/getting_started/tagging/_index.md @@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ Below are Datadog's tagging requirements: 1. Tags must **start with a letter** and after that may contain the characters listed below: - - Alphanumerics + - Letters (all Unicode letters are supported, e.g., a, ó, 気, 녕, ك, and ดี) + - Numbers - Underscores - Minuses - Colons @@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ Below are Datadog's tagging requirements: Other special characters are converted to underscores. -2. Tags can be **up to 200 characters** long and support Unicode letters (which includes most character sets, including languages such as Japanese). +2. Tags can be **up to 200 characters** long. 3. Tags are converted to lowercase. Therefore, `CamelCase` tags are not recommended. Authentication (crawler) based integrations convert camel case tags to underscores, for example `TestTag` --> `test_tag`. 4. A tag can be in the format `value` or `:`. Commonly used tag keys are `env`, `instance`, and `name`. The key always precedes the first colon of the global tag definition, for example: @@ -171,4 +172,4 @@ For more information, see [Using Tags][1]. [22]: /getting_started/tagging/using_tags/#developers [23]: /account_management/billing/usage_attribution/ [24]: /getting_started/tagging/using_tags/#ci-visibility -[25]: /containers/troubleshooting/log-collection?tab=datadogoperator#missing-host-level-tags-on-new-hosts-or-nodes \ No newline at end of file +[25]: /containers/troubleshooting/log-collection?tab=datadogoperator#missing-host-level-tags-on-new-hosts-or-nodes