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

You control what each team member can do in a Space by assigning them a role. The Admin role has full control over the Space, including users, nodes, rooms, and billing. To make someone an Admin, you must already be an Admin yourself — only current Admins can assign the Admin role to others. For the full list of roles and what each one permits, see the role-based access model.

Invite a new user and make them an Admin

1. In the Space's sidebar, click Invite Users.
2. Enter the invitee's email address.
3. Select Admin as the role for the invitation.
4. Send the invitation. The invitee becomes an Admin when they accept and join the Space.

Change an existing member's role to Admin

1. Click Space Settings (⚙️) on the left sidebar below the spaces list.
2. Open the User Management tab.
3. Find the member and change their role to Admin.

Role changes take effect immediately — the member gains the new permissions right away, with no reload or restart needed.

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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

Leaving a Room

Any user with Room access — Admin, Manager, Troubleshooter, or Observer — can leave a Room. Billing users do not have Room access and cannot leave a Room.

Leaving a Room removes your access to that Room's nodes, dashboards, metrics, and functions. It does not delete the Room or affect other members.

Rejoining a Room depends on your role:

• Admins and Managers can rejoin any Room at any time on their own.
• Troubleshooters and Observers cannot rejoin on their own and must be re-added to the Room by an Admin or Manager.

For the full permission breakdown, see the Room Management table in the RBAC reference.

Delete a Room

Only Admins and Managers can delete a Room. See the Room Management table in the RBAC reference for the full permissions matrix.

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Deleting a Room is permanent and cannot be undone. The Room and its dashboards are removed.

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The nodes in a deleted Room are not deleted — they remain available in the "All nodes" Room and any other Rooms they belong to within the Space.

Steps to delete a Room:

1. Click the ⚙️ next to the Room name to open the Room's settings.
2. Click Delete Room.

Delete a Space

Only users with the Admin role can delete a Space. See the role-based access model for full permission details.

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Deleting a Space is permanent and cannot be undone. You cannot delete the only Space on your account — each account must have at least one Space.

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Steps to delete a Space:

1. Navigate to Space Settings (⚙️) on the left sidebar below the spaces list.
2. Select the Info tab.
3. Click Delete Space.