# Why do I see kots.io/exclude: true on all my HelmChart Custom Resources?

**URL:** https://community.replicated.com/t/why-do-i-see-kots-io-exclude-true-on-all-my-helmchart-custom-resources/925
**Category:** Supporting your customers
**Created:** [August 17, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/why-do-i-see-kots-io-exclude-true-on-all-my-helmchart-custom-resources/925 "2022-08-17T23:40:02Z")
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### Author: ![dex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.replicated.com/dex/32/26_2.png) [@dex](https://community.replicated.com/u/dex)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/why-do-i-see-kots-io-exclude-true-on-all-my-helmchart-custom-resources/925/1 "2022-08-17T23:40:02Z")

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I was looking at my deployed app recently and I noticed that all the `HelmChart` custom resource instances, when viewed in the `View Files` tab of the App Manager console, have

```auto
metatdata:
  annotations:
    kots.io/exclude: true

```

Why is this getting added? Should I be worried about this?

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### Author: ![dmitriy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.replicated.com/dmitriy/32/16_2.png) [@dmitriy](https://community.replicated.com/u/dmitriy)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/why-do-i-see-kots-io-exclude-true-on-all-my-helmchart-custom-resources/925/2 "2022-08-18T00:00:21Z")

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This is done to make maintaining backwards compatibility easier. When a new kots kind is added, older versions won’t know about it and may try to deploy it. The `kots.io/exclude` annotation works even with very old kots releases. Most kots kinds have been around for a long time, but the annotation was added to all of them for consistency.