# Tagging and tracking clarifications **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta Elastic\ **Created:** [December 19, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tagging-and-tracking-clarifications/112497 "2017-12-19T19:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tagging-and-tracking-clarifications/112497/1 "2017-12-19T19:14:54Z")
G'Day @system, I had a few questions about tagging, which we want to enable, and how it works with tracking. I found [this older thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-and-tracking-implementation-for-tags-and-categories/46987) which explains some of it, but I was wondering if you can track a specific tag in a single category? eg can our ML team _only_ track things from #x-pack with an ML tag, or does tracking that tag apply to _any_ ML tag across _all_ categories. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tagging-and-tracking-clarifications/112497/2 "2017-12-19T19:39:45Z")
Tags are tracked globally, it's not currently possible to track tags only in a specific category. You can filter a category to see only topics with a certain tag, but that's not what you're asking. Josh ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tagging-and-tracking-clarifications/112497/3 "2017-12-19T19:51:02Z")
> [@system](#): > > You can filter a category to see only topics with a certain tag, but that's not what you're asking. We were definitely after filtering on categories for email notifications, but that's still pretty handy 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tagging-and-tracking-clarifications/112497/4 "2017-12-19T20:37:32Z")
One last thing, can we get this added as a feature request please 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tagging-and-tracking-clarifications/112497/5 "2022-11-04T05:07:53Z")