# VMware Vsphere Integration - Tags

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vmware-vsphere-integration-tags/385193
**Category:** Elastic Agent
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [February 24, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vmware-vsphere-integration-tags/385193 "2026-02-24T19:30:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vmware-vsphere-integration-tags/385193/1 "2026-02-24T19:30:25Z")

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Hello, has anyone using VMware vSphere integration gotten tags from VMs? It seems like NewRelic can grab custom tags from vSphere: [https://docs.newrelic.com/install/vsphere/](https://docs.newrelic.com/install/vsphere/)

Background: Many admins use custom tags on VMs for reasons like "Do Not Backup" or "Yes, Backup" under a backup tag field. We want to start using tagging and ability to read the tags is important in Elastic.

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### Author: ![dot-mike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dot-mike/32/143339_2.png) [@dot-mike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dot-mike)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vmware-vsphere-integration-tags/385193/2 "2026-02-24T19:57:26Z")

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The [vsphere integration](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/integrations/vsphere) uses the [Metricbeat module](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-module-vsphere) to gather data. There is no support for tag collection added.

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### Author: ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vmware-vsphere-integration-tags/385193/3 "2026-02-24T21:17:05Z")

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@dot-mike Yeah it appears that the integration/metricbeat are collecting “custom fields”

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/b/1bc53b1270a54de7c0ac698b720eca1f90e82882.png)

but not vm tags .

I created a feature request:  
[[vmware vsphere]: Collect VM Tags and Categories from the vSphere CIS Tagging API · Issue #17557 · elastic/integrations](https://github.com/elastic/integrations/issues/17557)