diff --git a/ui/status/ninja.go b/ui/status/ninja.go
index fc0e21a05..fb760ac8f 100644
--- a/ui/status/ninja.go
+++ b/ui/status/ninja.go
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ func (n *NinjaReader) run() {
 						IOOutputKB:                 msg.EdgeFinished.GetIoOutputKb(),
 						VoluntaryContextSwitches:   msg.EdgeFinished.GetVoluntaryContextSwitches(),
 						InvoluntaryContextSwitches: msg.EdgeFinished.GetInvoluntaryContextSwitches(),
+						Tags:                       msg.EdgeFinished.GetTags(),
 					},
 				})
 			}
diff --git a/ui/status/ninja_frontend/frontend.pb.go b/ui/status/ninja_frontend/frontend.pb.go
index bcadc67e7..d0c49533a 100644
--- a/ui/status/ninja_frontend/frontend.pb.go
+++ b/ui/status/ninja_frontend/frontend.pb.go
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 
 // Code generated by protoc-gen-go. DO NOT EDIT.
 // versions:
-// 	protoc-gen-go v1.26.0
-// 	protoc        v3.9.1
+// 	protoc-gen-go v1.28.1
+// 	protoc        v3.21.12
 // source: frontend.proto
 
 package ninja_frontend
@@ -459,6 +459,9 @@ type Status_EdgeFinished struct {
 	VoluntaryContextSwitches *uint64 `protobuf:"varint,12,opt,name=voluntary_context_switches,json=voluntaryContextSwitches" json:"voluntary_context_switches,omitempty"`
 	// Involuntary context switches
 	InvoluntaryContextSwitches *uint64 `protobuf:"varint,13,opt,name=involuntary_context_switches,json=involuntaryContextSwitches" json:"involuntary_context_switches,omitempty"`
+	// Arbitrary tags for build system profiling (module names and types, rule
+	// names, etc). Format of the string is implementation defined.
+	Tags *string `protobuf:"bytes,14,opt,name=tags" json:"tags,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (x *Status_EdgeFinished) Reset() {
@@ -584,6 +587,13 @@ func (x *Status_EdgeFinished) GetInvoluntaryContextSwitches() uint64 {
 	return 0
 }
 
+func (x *Status_EdgeFinished) GetTags() string {
+	if x != nil && x.Tags != nil {
+		return *x.Tags
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
 type Status_Message struct {
 	state         protoimpl.MessageState
 	sizeCache     protoimpl.SizeCache
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 var (
diff --git a/ui/status/ninja_frontend/frontend.proto b/ui/status/ninja_frontend/frontend.proto
index 57303889e..6cb4a0d02 100644
--- a/ui/status/ninja_frontend/frontend.proto
+++ b/ui/status/ninja_frontend/frontend.proto
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ message Status {
     optional uint64 voluntary_context_switches = 12;
     // Involuntary context switches
     optional uint64 involuntary_context_switches = 13;
+    // Arbitrary tags for build system profiling (module names and types, rule
+    // names, etc). Format of the string is implementation defined.
+    optional string tags = 14;
   }
 
   message Message {
diff --git a/ui/status/status.go b/ui/status/status.go
index a5b4a2867..f3e58b660 100644
--- a/ui/status/status.go
+++ b/ui/status/status.go
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ type ActionResultStats struct {
 
 	// Involuntary context switches
 	InvoluntaryContextSwitches uint64
+
+	Tags string
 }
 
 // Counts describes the number of actions in each state
diff --git a/ui/tracer/status.go b/ui/tracer/status.go
index a8b4e62f4..f973613d4 100644
--- a/ui/tracer/status.go
+++ b/ui/tracer/status.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ package tracer
 
 import (
 	"android/soong/ui/status"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 )
 
@@ -60,6 +61,24 @@ func (s *statusOutput) StartAction(action *status.Action, counts status.Counts)
 	}
 }
 
+func (s *statusOutput) parseTags(rawTags string) map[string]string {
+	if rawTags == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	tags := map[string]string{}
+	for _, pair := range strings.Split(rawTags, ";") {
+		if pair == "" {
+			// Ignore empty tag pairs. It's hard to generate these cleanly from
+			// make so some tag strings might be something like ";key=value".
+			continue
+		}
+		parts := strings.SplitN(pair, "=", 2)
+		tags[parts[0]] = parts[1]
+	}
+	return tags
+}
+
 func (s *statusOutput) FinishAction(result status.ActionResult, counts status.Counts) {
 	start, ok := s.running[result.Action]
 	if !ok {
@@ -90,20 +109,22 @@ func (s *statusOutput) FinishAction(result status.ActionResult, counts status.Co
 			IOOutputKB:                 result.Stats.IOOutputKB,
 			VoluntaryContextSwitches:   result.Stats.VoluntaryContextSwitches,
 			InvoluntaryContextSwitches: result.Stats.InvoluntaryContextSwitches,
+			Tags:                       s.parseTags(result.Stats.Tags),
 		},
 	})
 }
 
 type statsArg struct {
-	UserTime                   uint32 `json:"user_time"`
-	SystemTime                 uint32 `json:"system_time_ms"`
-	MaxRssKB                   uint64 `json:"max_rss_kb"`
-	MinorPageFaults            uint64 `json:"minor_page_faults"`
-	MajorPageFaults            uint64 `json:"major_page_faults"`
-	IOInputKB                  uint64 `json:"io_input_kb"`
-	IOOutputKB                 uint64 `json:"io_output_kb"`
-	VoluntaryContextSwitches   uint64 `json:"voluntary_context_switches"`
-	InvoluntaryContextSwitches uint64 `json:"involuntary_context_switches"`
+	UserTime                   uint32            `json:"user_time"`
+	SystemTime                 uint32            `json:"system_time_ms"`
+	MaxRssKB                   uint64            `json:"max_rss_kb"`
+	MinorPageFaults            uint64            `json:"minor_page_faults"`
+	MajorPageFaults            uint64            `json:"major_page_faults"`
+	IOInputKB                  uint64            `json:"io_input_kb"`
+	IOOutputKB                 uint64            `json:"io_output_kb"`
+	VoluntaryContextSwitches   uint64            `json:"voluntary_context_switches"`
+	InvoluntaryContextSwitches uint64            `json:"involuntary_context_switches"`
+	Tags                       map[string]string `json:"tags"`
 }
 
 func (s *statusOutput) Flush()                                        {}