Announcing Tag Governance: Automate governance of tags across all your resources

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In the complex digital environments that many organizations are built on, rapid deployment of resources from different sets of tools and stacks is very common. This poses data quality challenges for organizations including compliance and security risks, increased cloud spend and costs, and long mean time to resolution or remediation of issues.

To resolve these organizational challenges, tags (or labels) are the standard method to organize and align their virtual, cloud, and microservice resources across the different environments. Tags contain important metadata such as ownership, applications, locations, etc. Tagging policies are used by most orgs to standardize the kind of tags across all your environments

ServiceNow Tag Governance helps automate the governance across your multi-cloud and virtual environments. Tag Governance can:

-Provide a single pane of glass to visualize and understand your tag health
-Automate tag auditing in the CMDB for compliance
-Automate remediation of tags within workflows and on the cloud
-Discovery: Discovers tags across cloud and on-premises to automatically populate the CMDB
-Service Mapping: Add business context such as relationships to the tagged resources.

Let’s us dig deeper into how Tag Governance works:

1. Tag Governance Dashboard – single pane of glass that visualizes tag health compliance, usage data, efficacy (ratings and trend graphs), tag policies to improve tag quality and policy management

2.Tag Policies – create policies that can run checks on resources with specified tag keys and get a report on non-compliant tags to be remediated. These resources cover cloud, virtual machine

3.Audit Findings – run audits that show non-compliant tags with failure reasons and automated tasks

4. Automated Remediation – tags found non-compliant by tag governance policies will be automatically remediated with the correct keys or values to become compliant

ServiceNow Tag Governance comes out on the ServiceNow Store this Thursday, July 22nd. See it in action with this video overview.