diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
index 1410dde6ce2..f55256758e3 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY="{{ NEWRELIC_LICENSE_KEY }}"
 
 {% if COMMON_ENABLE_DATADOG and COMMON_ENABLE_DATADOG_APP %}
 {% set executable = edxapp_venv_bin + '/ddtrace-run ' + executable %}
+export DD_TAGS="service:edxapp-cms"
 # Datadog's instrumentation breaks pymongo: https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/580
 export DD_TRACE_PYMONGO_ENABLED=false
 {% endif -%}
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
index 26ce0039906..2574b9e9488 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY="{{ NEWRELIC_LICENSE_KEY }}"
 
 {% if COMMON_ENABLE_DATADOG and COMMON_ENABLE_DATADOG_APP %}
 {% set executable = edxapp_venv_bin + '/ddtrace-run ' + executable %}
+export DD_TAGS="service:edxapp-lms"
 # Datadog's instrumentation breaks pymongo: https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/580
 export DD_TRACE_PYMONGO_ENABLED=false
 {% endif -%}