# Getting Started with Datastore Tags

Source: https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/getting-started/

Tags are flexible labels that help you categorize, organize, and filter your source datastores in Qualytics. By assigning tags to datastores, you can classify them by environment, compliance, team, or any custom category. Those tags automatically cascade to all containers, fields, and checks within the datastore, and to the anomalies created after the tag reaches those checks.

In this section you will learn how tags work, which team permissions and user roles can manage them, and how to assign or remove tags from your datastores - both through the UI and the API. Any user with the **Editor** team permission can assign and unassign tags; only Admins manage global tags, and a team's Editors manage its [team tags](https://userguide.qualytics.io/tags/deep-dive/team-tags/).

> **Info: Creating, Editing, or Deleting Tags**
>
> This section covers assigning and unassigning **existing** tags to source datastores. To create new tags, edit tag properties, or delete tags, see the [Tags](https://userguide.qualytics.io/tags/overview/) section.

- **Introduction**

  Understand how tags work with datastores, tag types, inheritance, and how to use tags to filter operations.

  [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/deep-dive/introduction/)
- **Permissions**

  See which roles can view, assign, create, edit, and delete tags on datastores.

  [Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/deep-dive/permissions/)
- **Assign a Tag**

  Assign an existing tag to a source datastore from the tree view footer panel.

  [Assign a Tag](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/how-tos/assign-tags/)
- **Unassign a Tag**

  Remove an existing tag from a source datastore without deleting the tag itself.

  [Unassign a Tag](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/how-tos/unassign-tags/)
- **API**

  API endpoints and examples for assigning and unassigning tags on datastores.

  [API](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/api/)
- **FAQ**

  Common questions about tag inheritance, cascading behavior, filtering operations by tag, and tag limits.

  [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/tags/faq/)

*Last updated: November 5, 2026.*