diff --git a/schema/appmodel/application.schema.xml b/schema/appmodel/application.schema.xml
index b989837..1ece1bd 100644
--- a/schema/appmodel/application.schema.xml
+++ b/schema/appmodel/application.schema.xml
@@ -106,12 +106,16 @@
  <class name="DFApplication">
   <superclass name="SmartDaqApplication"/>
   <superclass name="Resource"/>
+  <superclass name="ManagedObject"/>
   <relationship name="trb" description="Configuration of the TRB to be generated my get_modules()" class-type="TRBConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <relationship name="data_writers" class-type="DataWriterConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="many" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <relationship name="uses" class-type="DFHWConf" low-cc="one" high-cc="one" is-composite="no" is-exclusive="no" is-dependent="no"/>
   <method name="generate_modules" description="Generate DaqModule dal objects for streams of the application on the fly">
    <method-implementation language="c++" prototype="void generate_modules(std::shared_ptr&lt;appmodel::ConfigurationHelper&gt;) const override" body="BEGIN_HEADER_PROLOGUE&#xA;#include &quot;appmodel/ConfigurationHelper.hpp&quot;&#xA;END_HEADER_PROLOGUE"/>
   </method>
+  <method name="object_tags" description="">
+   <method-implementation language="c++" prototype="std::set&lt;std::string&gt; object_tags() const override" body=""/>
+  </method>
  </class>
 
  <class name="DFHWConf">
diff --git a/src/DFApplication.cpp b/src/DFApplication.cpp
index 399ca46..a08a2a6 100644
--- a/src/DFApplication.cpp
+++ b/src/DFApplication.cpp
@@ -117,7 +117,16 @@ fill_replay_sourceid_object(const ConfigObjectFactory& obj_fac,
   }
 }
 
-
+std::set<std::string>
+DFApplication::object_tags() const {
+  std::set<std::string> tags;
+  auto host = get_runs_on()->get_runs_on()->UID();
+  for (auto writer : get_data_writers()) {
+    auto path = writer->get_data_store_params()->get_directory_path();
+    tags.insert(fmt::format("storage:{}:{}", host, path));
+  }
+  return tags;
+}
 
 void
 DFApplication::generate_modules(