I wouldn't recommend more than 1000 tags, I have seen degradation linked to applications loading a specific amount of tags and neglecting tags that correlate to the same numbers of hosts beyond the 1000 mark. Though they don't have any impact on indexing, search can be more meaningful with better direction of your catagories through eventtypes. This can also be associated with hosts r sources, as opposed to matching a case in an event.
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