Organizing Monitors with Projects

Organizing Monitors with Projects

This article covers best practices for using projects to keep your monitor list manageable as your team scales.

Best Practices for Project Organization

Keep the Number of Projects Small at First

Start with 2–4 projects. Having too many fine-grained projects makes the filter list harder to navigate than having no projects at all. Add more as your team grows and a clear need emerges.

Match Projects to How Your Team Thinks

If your team organizes work by environment (production / staging / dev), mirror that in projects. If they organize by product area or service, mirror that instead. The goal is that any team member should immediately know which project to look in for a given monitor.

Use Projects to Scope Alert Rules

Alert rules can be scoped to specific monitors. When monitors are grouped into projects, it's easier to mentally map which rules apply to which monitors. For example, "Production" project monitors might have stricter thresholds and Critical-priority rules, while "Staging" monitors use less aggressive rules.

Reassigning a Monitor to a Different Project

  1. Go to Monitors and click the monitor to edit.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. Change the Project dropdown to the new project.
  4. Click Save.

Filtering Monitors by Project

On the Monitors list page:

  1. Click the Project filter dropdown (above the monitor list).
  2. Select the project you want to view.

The list updates immediately to show only monitors in that project.

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