Labels case sensitivity

[dson]

Hi, I have some questions about labels. I noticed that adding a label to an application using the UI will auto capitalize the first letters of the key:value pair. But adding a label via the API does not.

Is this a bug on the UI or the API? Or neither? Are labels case sensitive?

[stefan_garnham]

Hi @dson - It is a “feature” as described in the thread below.

Labels questions

I am a big fan of the labels that you can add to monitors, apps, etc to group and filter items but I have notice some quirks. In APM only the first letter of a label will be capitalized, so Environment:NFT becomes Environment:Nft, however this is not the case in the Monitors labels. If you have an existing label and want to add another which is similar but shorter, it will select the existing label and not let you add the shorter. So if I had Group:ProductionWeb and wanted to add Group:Product…

[dson]

Interesting… I don’t care either way but some sort of consistency would be nice especially if labels are case-sensitive

[rdouglas]

Hi @dson, the thread @stefan_garnham linked does have a workaround to keep consistency, but if this is not the ideal solution i’d advise to add this as a Feature Idea on the Hub so that other users can add their use-cases and vote as the more support these Ideas get the better

[dson]

This seems like a bug to me, so I made a thread here: Rest API and Web UI have inconsistent label capitalization policy

[RyanVeitch]

@dson Thanks for posting the feature idea here on the community.