Record attributes

Use DNS record comments and tags to categorize and clarify the purpose of DNS records within Cloudflare.

Comments provide a unique descriptions for specific records, whereas tags group similar records into categories.

These attributes are particularly useful when:

• Multiple teams are managing DNS records within the same zone.
• Your zone contains a large number of DNS records.
• You want to filter your DNS records based on matching attributes (for example, when they are managed by the same team or used for the same application).

Comments and tags are only supported for primary zones (full setup) and partial zones (CNAME setup).

Create or edit record attributes just like any other aspect of DNS records, whether through the dashboard or API.

You can also add or edit attributes by exporting and re-importing your records, or using the Batch record changes API.

When exporting and importing, special tags starting by cf- allow you to control specific Cloudflare configurations. On export, these tags are automatically added to reflect the current configuration for each record on your zone. Refer to reserved cf- tags for details.

Comments are treated as graphic Unicode characters , meaning that they are case-sensitive and do not have any character limitations. However, comments do not support newline (\n) or carriage return (\r) characters.

Tags are treated as an array of name:value pairs, meaning that tag names are not case-sensitive and can only contain letters, numbers, -, and _. For tag values, the same character restrictions apply as for comments.