Assigning entities to teams in New Relic is key to establishing clear ownership and enabling effective collaboration. You can define ownership through automated tag-based assignment or manual methods.
Automate ownership with tags
One of the simplest and most efficient ways to assign entity ownership is by applying labels (tags) directly in your agent configuration files.
Tag entities in your agent configuration file
Start by adding a team label to your agent configuration to specify which team owns a given entity. For example, in a Java agent, you can add:
<labels>team:Backend</labels>This tag associates the entity with the "Backend" team.
Automate entity assignment to teams
To automate the assignment of tagged entities to their respective teams:
- Go to All Capabilities > Teams > Automation.
- Enable the Entity ownership feature. Once enabled, New Relic will automatically assign any entity with a matching team tag to the corresponding team.
(Optional) Use Team aliases
If your organization uses different identifiers for the same team (e.g., "Backend" and "BE"), you can configure aliases to ensure consistency. To do so:
- Open the Team Hub page for the relevant team.
- Go to the Settings section.
- Add aliases that map alternative tag values to the same team. With aliases in place, entities tagged with either "team:Backend" or "team:BE" will both be assigned to the "Backend" team.
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You can also use any other ingested tags that represent ownership. This provides added flexibility and ensures alignment with your organization's current tagging conventions.
Manually assign ownership
If you don't have tags set up to represent ownership, you can manually assign ownership in the following places.
In Team hub page
To assign ownership from the Team Hub:
Go to the Team's hub page and click Entity management.
Select your entities you want to assign.
Click Save.
In entity pages
You can also assign an owner directly from any entity's summary page header.
In Catalogs
Ownership can be assigned to unowned catalog entries that are not yet linked to a team.