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title: "Attributes | Grafana Labs"
description: "Understanding the key-value pairs that organize your fleet"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## What are attributes?

**An attribute** is a key-value pair that describes a collector, like a label or tag that helps Fleet Management understand what each collector is and how to configure it.

[Attributes describe and organize your collectors](fleet-management-attributes.svg "Attributes describe and organize your collectors")

## Why use attributes

You need attributes to target collectors with configuration pipelines. The better you categorize your fleet with attributes, the more powerful remote configuration becomes:

- Configure at scale by targeting multiple collectors with one pipeline
- Organize and configure your infrastructure by env, region, team, etc.

## Three types of attributes

| Type         | Description                                                           | Set by                  |
|--------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------|
| **Reserved** | Preset attributes `collector.os`, `collector.version`, `collector.ID` | Fleet Management (auto) |
| **Local**    | Set in the `remotecfg` block in local config file                     | You                     |
| **Remote**   | Set in the Fleet Management application in Grafana Cloud              | You                     |

> **Attributes are the language of targeting.** They turn “update this one collector’s configuration” into “update all production collectors in `us-east`.”