# How to automatically tag Synthetic monitors **URL:** \ **Category:** Synthetic Monitoring\ **Tags:** tagging, synthetic-monitoring\ **Created:** [June 11, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949 "2019-06-11T16:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AlanZ](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/alanz/32/29676_2.png) [@AlanZ](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AlanZ)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/1 "2019-06-11T16:06:25Z")
We are looking at creating TAGS to groups our synthetic monitor so that we can manage access and alerting for specific synthetic monitors. Are there any ways that would allow us to create an automatic tag rule to group some synthetic monitor with specific names ? ---
**Author:** ![nj\_njoku](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/nj_njoku/32/13710_2.png) [@nj\_njoku](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/nj_njoku)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/2 "2019-06-11T16:36:48Z")
Hi Alain, To manage access to Synthetic Monitors, you can create a Management Zone with Rules that apply to Synthetic monitors (i.e. browser,external, HTTP monitors) that contain a specific name in the **Settings → Preferences → Management Zones**. For tagging automatically, Synthetic Monitors is not an option in the Rules currently. You still can tag manually using the **Bulk tagging feature** by filtering on Synthetic monitors and searching on a text that all your synthetic monitors’ names contain and tagging them with your custom tag. Please feel free to create an RFE for automatically tagging of Synthetic Monitors [here](https://answers.dynatrace.com/spaces/483/view.html). Thanks NJ ---
**Author:** ![anthony\_figuer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@anthony\_figuer1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/anthony_figuer1)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/3 "2020-01-14T16:53:33Z")
To avoid confusion for anyone who comes across this post in the future, I’d like to add here that this can now be done via automatic tagging rule. ![23195-1579020784234.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/e/2/e2446ea3e635276cbe473bc2770f05315bd5a635.png) ---
**Author:** ![ctturner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/ctturner/32/11883_2.png) [@ctturner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ctturner)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/4 "2020-01-14T20:42:44Z")
This can be done via Automatic Tags. I would recommend you have staff stick to a naming convention. for example: Environment - Application - Service. You could then leverage regex to dynamically tag these hosts. We have submitted a RFE for the regex portion. ![23199-tags.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/c/1/c142cc65cf9eded732af0d67fc874f8ebc4c4b98.png) ---
**Author:** ![gditri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gditri](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/gditri)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/5 "2020-06-24T14:49:35Z")
Hello everyone, We also would like to be able to create auto-tagging rules by the Browser/HTTP Monitor Name. Does anyone have a link to the RFE for this enhancement so I can up vote it? ---
**Author:** ![ChadTurner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/chadturner/32/161_2.png) [@ChadTurner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ChadTurner)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/6 "2020-06-24T17:34:18Z")
you can automatically tag synthetic monitors. are you having an issue with that? ---
**Author:** ![gditri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gditri](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/gditri)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/7 "2020-06-24T20:41:36Z")
The issue i am having is that i would like to create an auto tag rule that is based upon the leading characters of the monitor name like I can do with a host group name using regex. ie: something like {HostGroup:Name/^(.\*?)\_.\*?$}. But since there is no property to use for Web and HTTP monitors it doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![ChadTurner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/chadturner/32/161_2.png) [@ChadTurner](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ChadTurner)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/8 "2020-06-25T03:57:39Z")
Ahh yes, thanks for the clarification. The RFE is marked as planned but feel free to toss along an up-vote as well! > **[Login | Dynatrace](https://sso.dynatrace.com/action/signin?goto=https%3A%2F%2Fsso.dynatrace.com%3A443%2Foauth2%2Fauthorize%2Fredirect%3FoAuth2CtxUuid%3Dd12521f2-da06-4718-a2c3-7aacd01b0373&oAuth2RedirectUri=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.dynatrace.com%2Fauth%2Foauth2callback)** ---
**Author:** ![gditri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gditri](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/gditri)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-automatically-tag-synthetic-monitors/20949/9 "2020-06-25T12:55:14Z")
Great, thanks for your help.