Viewing LF-Tags assigned to a resource - AWS Lake Formation

Viewing LF-Tags assigned to a resource

You can view the LF-Tags that are assigned to a Data Catalog resource. You must have the DESCRIBE or ASSOCIATE permission on a LF-Tag to view it.

Console
To view the LF-Tags that are assigned to a resource (console)

  1. Open the Lake Formation console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/lakeformation/.

    Sign in as the data lake administrator, the resource owner, or a user who has been granted Lake Formation permissions on the resource.

  2. In the navigation pane, under the heading Data catalog, do one of the following:

    • To view LF-Tags assigned to a database, choose Databases.

    • To view LF-Tags assigned to a table, choose Tables.

  3. On the Tables or Databases page, choose the name of the database or table. Then on the details page, scroll down to the LF-Tags section.

    The following screenshot shows the LF-Tags assigned to a customers table, which is contained in the retail database. The module LF-Tag is inherited from the database. The credit_limit column has the level=vp LF-Tag assigned.

    The image is a screenshot of the LF-Tags section of the customers table detail page. The LF-Tags section contains a table with the following columns: Resource, Key, Value, and Inherited from. The table has 3 rows. Above the table is a text entry field with the "Find tags" placeholder text, and an Edit tags button. The paragraph that precedes the image describes the table values shown in the screenshot.
AWS CLI
To view the LF-Tags that are assigned to a resource (AWS CLI)

  • Enter a command similar to the following.

    aws lakeformation get-resource-lf-tags --show-assigned-lf-tags --resource '{ "Table": {"CatalogId":"111122223333", "DatabaseName":"erp", "Name":"sales"}}'

    The command returns the following output.

    {
    "TableTags": [
        {
            "CatalogId": "111122223333",
            "TagKey": "module",
            "TagValues": [
                "sales"
            ]
        },
        {
            "CatalogId": "111122223333",
            "TagKey": "environment",
            "TagValues": [
                "development"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ColumnTags": [
        {
            "Name": "total",
            "Tags": [
                {
                    "CatalogId": "111122223333",
                    "TagKey": "level",
                    "TagValues": [
                        "director"
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

    This output shows only LF-Tags that are explicitly assigned, not inherited. If you want to see all LF-Tags on all columns, including inherited LF-Tags, omit the --show-assigned-lf-tags option.