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Add ability to search for devices/VMs which do not have a given tag #5537

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opened 2025-12-29 19:29:07 +01:00 by adam · 4 comments
adam commented 2025-12-29 19:29:07 +01:00
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Originally created by @BarbarossaTM on GitHub (Oct 20, 2021).

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v3.0.3

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Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

It would be nice to be able to filter for devices or VMs which do not have a given tag applied.

Use case

When migrating parts of the infrastructure to new versions or new tooling we currently use tags to indicate that a device or a VM should get the "new stuff" which works fine. Our automation consumes the tags applied to the device/VM and does the right thing. To see which devices/VMs have to be migrated it would be nice if we could filter for devices/VMs which do not have the tag applied yet.

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Originally created by @BarbarossaTM on GitHub (Oct 20, 2021). ### NetBox version v3.0.3 ### Feature type Change to existing functionality ### Proposed functionality It would be nice to be able to filter for devices or VMs which do **not** have a given tag applied. ### Use case When migrating parts of the infrastructure to new versions or new tooling we currently use tags to indicate that a device or a VM should get the "new stuff" which works fine. Our automation consumes the tags applied to the device/VM and does the right thing. To see which devices/VMs have to be migrated it would be nice if we could filter for devices/VMs which do not have the tag applied yet. ### Database changes None. ### External dependencies None.
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adam commented 2025-12-29 19:29:07 +01:00
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@tyler-8 commented on GitHub (Oct 20, 2021):

You can do this today on just about any endpoint with a tag filter - there's also the tag__n filter.

If you only want objects that do not contain tag-x you would add tag__n=tag-x to your query parameters. This works in both the GUI and API - although the negation filter isn't visible in the GUI, the URL query does render the proper results.

@tyler-8 commented on GitHub (Oct 20, 2021): You can do this today on just about any endpoint with a `tag` filter - there's also the `tag__n` filter. If you only want objects that do not contain `tag-x` you would add `tag__n=tag-x` to your query parameters. This works in both the GUI and API - although the negation filter isn't visible in the GUI, the URL query does render the proper results.
adam commented 2025-12-29 19:29:07 +01:00
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@BarbarossaTM commented on GitHub (Oct 20, 2021):

Thanks @tyler-8, that's a nice workaround :)

@BarbarossaTM commented on GitHub (Oct 20, 2021): Thanks @tyler-8, that's a nice workaround :)
adam commented 2025-12-29 19:29:08 +01:00
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@jeremystretch commented on GitHub (Oct 21, 2021):

@BarbarossaTM does the solution @tyler-8 provided meet your needs for this FR?

This works in both the GUI and API - although the negation filter isn't visible in the GUI

Tangential, but I'd like to improve the UI filter forms to support this, somehow. I've opened #7604 to propose an idea.

@jeremystretch commented on GitHub (Oct 21, 2021): @BarbarossaTM does the solution @tyler-8 provided meet your needs for this FR? > This works in both the GUI and API - although the negation filter isn't visible in the GUI Tangential, but I'd like to improve the UI filter forms to support this, somehow. I've opened #7604 to propose an idea.
adam commented 2025-12-29 19:29:08 +01:00
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@BarbarossaTM commented on GitHub (Oct 21, 2021):

Yes, adding ?tag__n=xxx to the URL works fine for now and provides me the result I want, so I can work. Would be cool to be able to add this filter via the GUI, so if that's the intention for #7604 that would be great :)

@BarbarossaTM commented on GitHub (Oct 21, 2021): Yes, adding `?tag__n=xxx` to the URL works fine for now and provides me the result I want, so I can work. Would be cool to be able to add this filter via the GUI, so if that's the intention for #7604 that would be great :)
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