diff --git a/src/main/java/ai/apptuit/metrics/jinsight/ConfigService.java b/src/main/java/ai/apptuit/metrics/jinsight/ConfigService.java
index 58b67a3..7277356 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ai/apptuit/metrics/jinsight/ConfigService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ai/apptuit/metrics/jinsight/ConfigService.java
@@ -25,17 +25,14 @@
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.UnknownHostException;
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.Enumeration;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.*;
 import java.util.jar.Attributes;
 import java.util.jar.Manifest;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
@@ -63,6 +60,8 @@ public class ConfigService {
   private static final String API_ENDPOINT_PROPERTY_NAME = "apptuit.api_url";
 
   private static final String HOST_TAG_NAME = "host";
+  private static final String UUID_TEMPLATE_VARIABLE = "${UUID}";
+  private static final String PID_TEMPLATE_VARIABLE = "${PID}";
 
   private static final File JINSIGHT_HOME = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"), ".jinsight");
   private static final File UNIX_JINSIGHT_CONF_DIR = new File("/etc/jinsight/");
@@ -293,6 +292,11 @@ private void loadGlobalTags(Properties config) throws ConfigurationException {
           String tag = tagAndValue[0].trim();
           String value = tagAndValue[1].trim();
           if (tag.length() > 0 && value.length() > 0) {
+            if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(UUID_TEMPLATE_VARIABLE)) {
+              value = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
+            } else if (value.equalsIgnoreCase(PID_TEMPLATE_VARIABLE)) {
+              value = getThisJVMProcessID() + "";
+            }
             loadedGlobalTags.put(tag, value);
             continue;
           }
@@ -305,6 +309,24 @@ private void loadGlobalTags(Properties config) throws ConfigurationException {
     }
   }
 
+  static int getThisJVMProcessID() throws ConfigurationException {
+    try {
+      java.lang.management.RuntimeMXBean runtime =
+              java.lang.management.ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean();
+      java.lang.reflect.Field jvm = runtime.getClass().getDeclaredField("jvm");
+      jvm.setAccessible(true);
+      sun.management.VMManagement mgmt =
+              (sun.management.VMManagement) jvm.get(runtime);
+      java.lang.reflect.Method pid_method =
+              mgmt.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("getProcessId");
+      pid_method.setAccessible(true);
+
+      return (Integer) pid_method.invoke(mgmt);
+    } catch (NoSuchFieldException | IllegalAccessException | NoSuchMethodException | InvocationTargetException e) {
+      throw new ConfigurationException("Error fetching " + PID_TEMPLATE_VARIABLE + " of JVM", e);
+    }
+  }
+
   String getApiToken() {
     return apiToken;
   }
diff --git a/src/test/java/ai/apptuit/metrics/jinsight/ConfigServiceTest.java b/src/test/java/ai/apptuit/metrics/jinsight/ConfigServiceTest.java
index a5fc87d..5c92e6e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/ai/apptuit/metrics/jinsight/ConfigServiceTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/ai/apptuit/metrics/jinsight/ConfigServiceTest.java
@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@
 
 package ai.apptuit.metrics.jinsight;
 
-import static ai.apptuit.metrics.jinsight.ConfigService.REPORTER_PROPERTY_NAME;
-import static ai.apptuit.metrics.jinsight.ConfigService.REPORTING_FREQ_PROPERTY_NAME;
-import static ai.apptuit.metrics.jinsight.ConfigService.REPORTING_MODE_PROPERTY_NAME;
+import static ai.apptuit.metrics.jinsight.ConfigService.*;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
@@ -222,6 +220,26 @@ public void testGetTagsMissing() throws Exception {
     assertEquals(globalTags, Collections.emptyMap());
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testGlobalUUIDTag() throws Exception {
+    Properties p = new Properties();
+    p.setProperty("global_tags", "jvmid:${UUID}");
+    ConfigService configService = new ConfigService(p);
+    Map<String, String> globalTags = configService.getGlobalTags();
+    assertEquals(globalTags.size(), 1);
+    assertEquals(globalTags.get("jvmid").length(), 36);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGlobalProcessIDTag() throws Exception {
+    Properties p = new Properties();
+    p.setProperty("global_tags", "pid:${PID}");
+    ConfigService configService = new ConfigService(p);
+    Map<String, String> globalTags = configService.getGlobalTags();
+    assertEquals(globalTags.size(), 1);
+    assertEquals(globalTags.get("pid"), getThisJVMProcessID() + "");
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testPutReporterHasHostTagAlways() throws Exception {
     Properties p = getApptuitReporterConfigProperties(ReportingMode.API_PUT);