# Aliasing for metrics (ping module)

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/aliasing-for-metrics-ping-module/3797>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** cloud, configuration, agent, collectors, ui\
**Created:** [January 24, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/aliasing-for-metrics-ping-module/3797 "2023-01-24T20:26:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luis\_Johnstone](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/luis_johnstone/32/151_2.png) [@Luis\_Johnstone](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Luis_Johnstone)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/aliasing-for-metrics-ping-module/3797/1 "2023-01-24T20:26:39Z")

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I’m using the ping module for Netdata and I was wondering if it is possible to supply aliases for certain targets.  
The use case is that I am monitoring a number of IPv6 addresses but since I’m not a robot I find that viewing those metric in, say, the latency chart is perplexing because I won’t necessarily know what that IPv6 actually points to (I have quite a few being monitored).  
I can’t use DNS names because I ping **both** IPv4 and IPv6 on each target and if I used names then I don’t control that anymore.  
So what I’m looking to do is to be able to specify aliases for each host/metric…  
e.g. 192.168.178.5 = blue-box-at-end-of-cable-on-the-left

And then when I **group a chart by host** it will show the aliased names.  
Or perhaps a “Group by Alias” would be better as it’s wouldn’t mess with the existing views.