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Using Labels

Labeling objects makes it easy to search, filter, and report on any attribute that is important to your organization. For example:

  • If you label your projects by environment, you can create a report to see how much you are spending on your different types of environments within an OU or the whole organization.
  • You can label your funding sources by year and view all funding sources for a particular year at once.
  • If components of your application span across multiple accounts or projects, you can label those components as belonging to the same application. Then, you can create a consolidated report of your expenses associated with the application, regardless of where the components are.

Using Labels in Action Plans

Action plans can be used to automate cloud rule application on projects and OUs based on labels. There are two approaches to applying cloud rules with action plans:

  • Apply the associated cloud rules to resources that do have the label.
  • Apply the associated cloud rules to resources that do not have the label.

Labels that are part of an action plan are indicated with a lightening bolt icon action-plans-filled-24.png. To see which action plans a label is part of, navigate to Labels > select a label > Action Plans.

For more information, see Applying Cloud Rules with Action Plans.

Using Labels in Reports

When creating certain reports, such as spend reports, you can use filters to report on objects with labels. Click Add Filter to use tags and labels to filter your report. You can specify if you want the results to include or exclude each tag/label, the tag/label key, and the tag/label values. You can add as many filters as you want and use a combination of tags and labels in the same report.

For more information, see Reporting.

Using Labels to Filter

Labels make it easy to filter lists throughout Kion to see related objects, regardless of where they fall in your organization structure.

To filter OUs by label:

  1. In the left navigation menu, click OUs > All OUs.
  2. Use the Labels dropdown menu at the top of the page to select one or more labels.
  3. Click Apply.

To filter projects by label:

  1. In the left navigation menu, click Projects > All Projects.
  2. Click the filter icon.
  3. Use the Labels dropdown menu to select one or more labels.
  4. Click Apply.

To filter funding sources by label:

  1. In the left navigation menu, click Financials > All Funding Sources.
  2. Use the Labels dropdown menu at the top of the page to select one or more labels.
  3. Click Apply.

To filter accounts by label:

  1. In the left navigation menu, click Accounts> All Accounts.
  2. Click the filter icon.
  3. Use the Labels dropdown menu to select one or more labels.
  4. Click Apply.

To filter cloud rules by label:

  1. In the left navigation menu, click Cloud Management > Cloud Rules.
  2. Use the Labels dropdown menu at the top of the page to select one or more labels.
  3. Click Apply.