diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 991cb38..9af4c7c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ then `/opt/prometheus-ecs/default-tasks.json` will be written. This can be usefu
 
 ### Tags to labels
 
-If `--tags-to-labels` is set, the given tags will be added to the service discovery entry as `tag_<tag>` where `<tag>` is the given tag formatted to allowed label characters if the tag exists on either the task definition or task. Task tags override the task definition tags.
+If `--tags-to-labels` is set, the given tags will be added to the service discovery entry as `__meta_ecs_tag_<tag>` where `<tag>` is the given tag formatted to allowed label characters if the tag exists on either the task definition or task. Task tags override the task definition tags.
 
 If `--tags-to-labels "*"` is provided then _all_ non aws prefixed (`AWS:` or `aws:`) tags will be added.
 
diff --git a/discoverecs.py b/discoverecs.py
index 907bf30..88e81be 100644
--- a/discoverecs.py
+++ b/discoverecs.py
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ def discover_tasks(self):
                         # with leading __ reserved for internal use
                         tag_name = re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9_]", "_", tag_name).lstrip("_")
                         if tag_name != "" and not re.match(r"^[0-9]", tag_name):
-                            job["labels"]["tag_" + tag_name] = tag_value
+                            job["labels"]["__meta_ecs_tag_" + tag_name] = tag_value
                 if labels:
                     job["labels"].update(labels)
                 jobs[interval or self.default_scrape_interval_prefix].append(job)