I used to be able to click on a tag in a droplet and view a list of all the droplets which have that tag. At some point this feature was removed, the tags are now unclickable.
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Hi there,
You are right, that functionality changed with the new UI. Tags are currently not clickable in the Droplets list the way they used to be.
The workaround right now is to use the search/filter bar at the top of the Droplets page. You can filter by tag there and it will show you all Droplets with that tag.
If you prefer the command line, doctl also handles this cleanly:
doctl compute droplet list --tag-name your-tag-name
It is a step backwards in terms of UI convenience and worth leaving feedback about. You can do that at https://ideas.digitalocean.com so the product team has it on their radar.
Heya, @stanflintlobster
Yeah, this is expected behaviour in the newer UI — they quietly removed the clickable tag filtering from the Droplet list in some views.
But the feature is still there, just not via the tag itself anymore.
You can still view all Droplets by tag in two ways:
1. Filter using the Droplets page search Go to the Droplets list page and use:
tag:your-tag-name
That will show all Droplets with that tag.
2. Use the direct URL filter You can also do:
https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets?tag_name=your-tag-name
3. CLI / API (most reliable)
doctl compute droplet list --tag-name your-tag-name
or API:
GET /v2/droplets?tag_name=your-tag-name
So yeah — they removed the “click tag → filter view” UX, but the underlying filtering still works, just moved to search/filters instead of clickable tags.
Regards
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