# Accelerate Alarm Manager tags
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By default, when you onboard with AMS Accelerate, your configuration is deployed to AWS AppConfig, defining an alarm baseline for your resources. The alarm definitions are applied only to resources with the **ams:rt:\*** tags. We recommend that these tags be applied using the [Accelerate Resource Tagger](acc-resource-tagger.md): you set up a basic Resource Tagger configuration in order to let AMS Accelerate know which resources you want managed.

Use Resource Tagger to apply the tag key **ams:rt:ams-managed** with tag value **true** to any resources you want AMS Accelerate to monitor.

**Topics**
+ [Accelerate tags using Resource Tagger](acc-mem-tag-alarms-use-rt.md)
+ [Accelerate tags without Resource Tagger](acc-mem-tags-no-rt.md)
+ [Accelerate tags using CloudFormation](acc-mem-tags-cfn.md)
+ [Accelerate tags using Terraform](acc-mem-tags-terraform.md)