Spaces and Rooms

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

Overview

You can organize your monitoring with two primary concepts that work together.

Spaces serve as your primary collaboration environment where you organize team members and manage access levels, connect nodes for monitoring, and create a unified monitoring environment.

Rooms function as organizational units within Spaces that provide infrastructure-wide dashboards, real-time metrics visualization, focused monitoring views, and flexible node grouping.

Key Relationship: Each node can only belong to one Space, but you can assign a node to multiple Rooms within that Space.

Getting Started

Create Your Space

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

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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.

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Set Up Team Access

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

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Best Practices for Team Access: Invite all relevant team members (SRE, DevOps, ITOps) and configure role-based access control. Maintain clear permission hierarchies and conduct regular access reviews and updates.

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Create Your First Room

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

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All nodes automatically appear in the "All nodes" Room. Each Room has independent dashboards and monitoring tools.

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Organize Your Infrastructure

Room Organization Strategies

Strategy	Use Case	Examples
Service-Based Organization	Group nodes by specific services, purpose, location, or infrastructure type	Nginx, MySQL, Pulsar, webserver, database, application, physical location, bare metal, containers, cloud provider
End-to-End Application Monitoring	Create Rooms for complete application stacks and service dependencies	Complete SaaS product stacks, internal service dependencies, full application ecosystems including Kubernetes clusters, Docker containers, Proxies, Databases, Web servers, Message brokers
Incident Response	Create dedicated Rooms for troubleshooting and problem resolution	Active incident investigation, problem diagnosis, performance troubleshooting, root cause analysis

Manage Your Setup

Space Configuration

1. Select your Space
2. Click Space Settings (⚙️) on the left sidebar below the spaces list
3. Access settings for room management, node configuration, integration setup, and general Space settings

Room Configuration

1. Click the ⚙️ next to the Room name
2. Manage room access, node grouping, dashboard settings, and monitoring configurations