---
title: Tag Governance
description: Effective tag management improves reporting and overall operations management efficiency. Use the ServiceNow Tag Governance app to identify and remediate on-premises or cloud resources that are inconsistent and don't comply with the tag policies of your organization.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/it-operations-management/tag-governance/landing-page-tag-governance.html
release: australia
product: Tag Governance
classification: tag-governance
topic_type: reference
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [ITOM Visibility, IT Operations Management]
---

# Tag Governance

Effective tag management improves reporting and overall operations management efficiency. Use the ServiceNow® Tag Governance app to identify and remediate on-premises or cloud resources that are inconsistent and don't comply with the tag policies of your organization.

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## Get started

A tag is a key-value pair that is assigned to a CI or cloud resource. Your organization can use tags to categorize assets to improve visibility into cloud usage and costs.

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[Explore\[Omitted image "bus-explore.svg"\] Alt text: Learn more about Tag Governance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/tag-governance/exploring-tag-governance.md)

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[Configure\[Omitted image "bus-sdlc.svg"\] Alt text: Install the app.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/tag-governance/configuring-tag-governance.md)

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[Create tag policies](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/tag-governance/tag-governance-establish-policies.md)[\[Omitted image "bus-agent-workspace-1.svg"\] Alt text: Define tag standards that will be audited.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/tag-governance/reference-tag-governance.md)

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[Updating cloud tags\[Omitted image "bus-cloud-upload.svg"\] Alt text: Real-time updates to tags for cloud resources.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/tag-governance/tag-governance-real-time-updates.md)

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[Remediate \[Omitted image "bus-integration-and-apis.svg"\] Alt text: Remediate tag issues](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/tag-governance/perform-remediations-tag-governance.md)

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[Reference\[Omitted image "bus-learn.svg"\] Alt text: Additional information on forms and settings.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/tag-governance/reference-tag-governance.md)

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</table>## Troubleshoot and get help

-   [Ask questions and explore other resources for Tag Governance in the ServiceNow Community](https://www.servicenow.com/community/)
-   [Search the Known Error Portal for known error articles](https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0597477)
-   [Contact Customer Service and Support](https://support.servicenow.com/now)