Exploring Tag Governance

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title: Exploring Tag Governance
description: Learn more about Tag Governance reports and discovery.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/it-operations-management/tag-governance/exploring-tag-governance.html
release: brazil
product: Tag Governance
classification: tag-governance
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Tag Governance, ITOM Visibility, IT Operations Management]
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# Exploring Tag Governance

Learn more about Tag Governance reports and discovery.

## Tag Governance overview

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.

## Tag Governance users

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User

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Description

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Tag Governance admin

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Responsible for maintaining uniform tag management policies and ensuring resources are properly tagged for visibility, compliance, and cost management.

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Report viewer

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View-only permissions:-   Monitor reports from audit runs
-   Analyze the data to derive insights to guide actions

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</table>## Tag Governance workflow

\[Omitted image "tag-gov-workflow.png"\] Alt text: Tag governance workflow.

## Tag Governance benefits

|Benefit|Feature|Users|
|-------|-------|-----|
|Implement cloud event processing and configure a tag policy to automatically update cloud resource tags in real time.|[Performing real-time updates to tags for cloud resources](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/tag-governance/tag-governance-real-time-updates.md)|Cloud admins|
|Tag Governance supports domain separation, allowing you to logically group and segregate data, processes, and administrative tasks into distinct domains. This enables precise control over aspects like user access and data visibility.|[Domain separation in Tag Governance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/tag-governance/tag-governance-domain-separation.md)|Cloud admins|
|Review non-compliant CIs flagged by tag audits and resolve them by adding the required tags.|[Preview and remediate tag audit failures](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/tag-governance/perform-remediations-tag-governance.md)|Tag admins|

## Exploring

-   **[Discovering tags](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/tag-governance/tag-governance-and-discovery.md)**

    The Discovery and Cloud Discovery features discover all resources in the CMDB as well as cloud resources from cloud providers such as Amazon AWS Cloud, Microsoft Azure Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform \(GCP\).

-   **[View Tag Governance metrics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/tag-governance/tag-governance-dashboard.md)**

    View metrics like tag policy coverage, compliance status, and usage trends on the Tag Governance Insights dashboard.


## What to explore next

To learn more about configuring and using Tag Governance, see:

-   [Configuring Tag Governance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/tag-governance/configuring-tag-governance.md)
-   [Using Tag Governance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/tag-governance/using-tag-governance.md)
-   [Tag Governance reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/tag-governance/reference-tag-governance.md)