# Is there a way to figure out fleet name from service in balena

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**Category:** Product support\
**Created:** [May 17, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/is-there-a-way-to-figure-out-fleet-name-from-service-in-balena/370529 "2024-05-17T12:01:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![olekspickle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/olekspickle/32/9752_2.png) [@olekspickle](https://forums.balena.io/u/olekspickle)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/is-there-a-way-to-figure-out-fleet-name-from-service-in-balena/370529/1 "2024-05-17T12:01:38Z")

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I want to add a tag with fleet name to a metric exporter.  
Is it possible with supervisor api or any other way?

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**Author:** ![ada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@ada](https://forums.balena.io/u/ada)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/is-there-a-way-to-figure-out-fleet-name-from-service-in-balena/370529/2 "2024-05-17T12:15:23Z")

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I belive you are looking for the envvar `BALENA_APP_NAME`. Earlier it was not called a “fleet” but an “app”.

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**Author:** ![chrisys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/chrisys/32/1731_2.png) [@chrisys](https://forums.balena.io/u/chrisys)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/is-there-a-way-to-figure-out-fleet-name-from-service-in-balena/370529/3 "2024-05-23T12:50:47Z")

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To add to the correct response above, this is also documented here: [Communicate outside the container - Balena Documentation](https://docs.balena.io/learn/develop/runtime/#environment-variables)