A team is a named group of people inside an organization, such as "Platform", "On-call", or "Customer success". Teams let you route alerts to the group that owns an app instead of to everyone. A member can belong to several teams.
Important
Teams group people. They do not grant or restrict access. What a person can do comes from their organization role and any per-app role. See Roles & permissions and App members.
What teams are for
Each team owns its own notification channels. An alert sent to a team channel reaches that team's Slack channel, webhook, or inbox rather than the whole organization's.
Every organization starts with a team called General. The person who created the organization is a team admin of General.
Create a team
- In the organization sidebar, open Teams.
- Choose Create team.
- Enter a Team name and choose Create team.
Only organization owners and admins can create, rename, or delete teams.
Add people to a team
Each team card has two ways to add people:
- Add: pick someone who is already an organization member from Add member…, then choose Add.
- Invite: enter an email address and choose an Organization role. If the address already belongs to a member, dply adds them to the team at once. Otherwise dply emails an invitation. Accepting it joins the organization with that role and the team in one step.
The role you choose in Invite applies to the organization, not to the team. Invitations expire after 7 days, and a team invitation uses an organization seat like any other invitation. See Roles & permissions.
Note
Only one pending invitation can exist per email address in an organization. If you already invited someone from Members, cancel that invitation before re-sending it from a team.
Rename, remove, and delete
- Rename: edit the team name in place on its card. dply asks you to confirm when you leave the field.
- Remove a person: choose Remove next to their name. They stay in the organization with the same role.
- Delete a team: choose Delete on the team card and confirm. Members stay in the organization.
Team notification channels
Choose Notifications on a team card to manage the team's channels. Organization owners and admins can manage every team's channels. A team admin can manage the channels of their own team. Any team member can view them.
Note
The dashboard adds people to teams as regular team members. The only team admin is the organization creator on the General team. Organization owners and admins can manage every team, so this rarely matters.
Who can do what
| Action | Owner | Admin | Member | Deployer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| See teams and who is on them | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create, rename, delete teams | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Add, invite, or remove team members | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Manage team notification channels | Yes | Yes | Team admins only | Team admins only |