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Fleet structure
What is this?
Fleets are collections of devices you manage together. In Dataplicity, fleets are organised using tags - searchable labels attached to devices that let you filter, group, and operate on subsets of your hardware.
Why does it matter after devices ship?
A commercial deployment spans devices across customers, regions, firmware versions, and deployment stages. Fleet organisation helps support teams find the right device quickly and run operations across a group.
How does it work in Dataplicity?
Dataplicity supports:
- Device property tags - automatically generated from device properties (OS, architecture, etc.)
- Custom tags - manually set labels such as
customer:acme,site:warehouse-3, orfirmware:2.1.0
Use device property tags and custom tags to organise, search, and target fleets.
Use tags to search, filter, and scope scheduled tasks and monitors to specific groups.
When should I use it?
- You manage more than a handful of devices
- Support needs to find devices by customer, site, or region
- You want to run a scheduled task on all devices with a specific firmware version
- You are moving from prototype to production fleet management
Example workflow
An IoT vendor tags devices with customer, site, and deployment-stage during factory imaging. When firmware 2.2.0 is released, engineering filters by firmware:2.1.0 and schedules an upgrade task across matching devices. Support filters by customer:acme to see only that customer's fleet.