Projects are a way to group related monitors within your team. This article explains what projects are for and when to use them.
The Purpose of Projects
A project is a label that organizes monitors into logical groups. All monitors must belong to a project, and each project belongs to a team.
Projects don't affect how monitoring works — check intervals, alert rules, and notifications all operate the same regardless of project. Projects are purely organizational.
When to Use Projects
Projects are most useful when you have multiple environments, products, or services to distinguish:
By environment:
- "Production"
- "Staging"
- "Development"
By product area:
- "API Services"
- "Frontend"
- "Third-Party Integrations"
By team or service owner:
- "Platform Team"
- "Checkout Service"
- "Auth Service"
There's no right or wrong way to organize. Start simple (maybe just one default project) and add more as your monitoring grows.
How Projects Relate to Teams
Each project belongs to one team. When you switch teams in PulseAPI, you see only the projects and monitors for that team.
If you want to share monitors across different groups of people with different permissions, use separate teams rather than separate projects — projects within the same team share the same access controls.
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