netdata/docs/netdata-cloud/organize-your-infrastructure-invite-your-team.md

Spaces and Rooms

This guide explains how to effectively organize your infrastructure monitoring using Netdata Cloud.

Netdata Cloud uses two primary organizational concepts:

• Spaces: High-level containers for your entire infrastructure.
• Rooms: Flexible groupings within Spaces for specific monitoring needs.

Spaces

What is a Space?

Space serves as your primary collaboration environment in Netdata Cloud. It allows you to:

• Organize team members and manage access levels.
• Connect nodes for monitoring.
• Create a unified monitoring environment.

Key Space Characteristics

• Each node can only belong to one Space.
• You can create multiple Spaces, but we recommend using a single Space for most use cases.
• All team members in a Space can access its monitoring data based on their assigned roles.

Space Management

Navigation

1. Use the left-most sidebar to switch between Spaces.
2. Click the plus (+) icon to create a new Space.

Settings and Configuration

1. Select your Space.
2. Click the gear icon in the lower left corner.
3. Access settings for:
   • Room management.
   • Node configuration.
   • Integration setup.
   • General Space settings.

Rooms

What is a Room?

Rooms are organizational units within a Space that provide:

• Infrastructure-wide dashboards.
• Real-time metrics visualization.
• Focused monitoring views.
• Flexible node grouping.

Key Room Characteristics

• A node can belong to multiple Rooms.
• All nodes automatically appear in the "All nodes" Room.
• Each Room has independent dashboards and monitoring tools.

Room Organization Strategies

1. Service-Based Organization

Group nodes by:

- Specific services (Nginx, MySQL, Pulsar).
- Purpose (webserver, database, application).
- Physical location.
- Infrastructure type (bare metal, containers).
- Cloud provider.

1. End-to-End Application Monitoring

Create Rooms for:

- Complete SaaS product stacks.
- Internal service dependencies.
- Full application ecosystems including Kubernetes clusters, Docker containers, Proxies, Databases, Web servers, and Message brokers.

1. Incident Response

Create dedicated Rooms for:

- Active incident investigation.
- Problem diagnosis.
- Performance troubleshooting.
- Root cause analysis.

Room Management

Navigation

1. Access Rooms through the Space's sidebar.
2. Click the green plus (+) icon next to "Rooms" to create new Rooms.

Settings and Configuration

1. Click the gear icon next to the Room name.
2. Manage:
   • Room access.
   • Node grouping.
   • Dashboard settings.
   • Monitoring configurations.

Team Collaboration

Inviting Team Members

1. Click "Invite Users" in the Space's sidebar.
2. Set appropriate access levels:
   • Rooms.
   • User roles.

Best Practices for Team Access

• Invite all relevant team members (SRE, DevOps, ITOps).
• Configure role-based access control.
• Maintain clear permission hierarchies.
• Regular access review and updates.