Organise monitored devices into logical groups for bulk association with monitoring profiles, alarm rules, and user access restrictions. Groups support hierarchical parent-child structures and automatic tag-based assignment.
Groups in Cloudmon are a way to organise monitored devices so that common settings can be applied to all of them at once. By associating a group with a monitoring profile, every device in that group inherits the same polling and reporting intervals. By associating a group with an alarm rule, every device in the group is covered by that rule. By assigning a group to a user account, that user only sees the devices in their assigned groups.
Groups support a parent-child hierarchy. A parent group can contain child groups, and associating a monitoring profile or alarm rule with a parent group can optionally include all its sub-groups, making it straightforward to manage large environments with consistent settings across multiple sites or departments.
Navigate to Settings → General Settings → Groups to view and manage all groups.
| Field | Description |
| Name | The name of the group, such as "London Office" or "Production Servers". |
| Parent | An existing group to set as the parent of this group. Leave blank to create a top-level group. |
| Description | A brief description of the group's purpose or the devices it contains. |
| Customer | In MSP deployments, assign this group to a specific customer. The dropdown lists all customers available in the controller. |
| Tags | Optional labels for filtering and searching groups. Tags assigned here also enable automatic agent assignment. |
After saving a group, click the Member Details tab to add devices. The Member Details form has two fields: Group By, which lets you filter available devices by Device, OS, Vendor, or Protocol, and Available Members, which lists all devices matching the selected category. Select the devices you want to add and they will appear in the Selected Members list. Click Save to apply.
Cloudmon supports a parent-child group hierarchy that mirrors the structure of your organisation. A parent group can contain any number of child groups, and those child groups can in turn contain their own child groups, allowing you to model multi-level structures such as regions, sites, and departments within a single hierarchy.
For example, an organisation with offices in multiple countries might structure their groups as follows:
To create a child group, set the Parent field when adding the group to point to the existing parent group. To create a top-level group with no parent, leave the Parent field blank.
The hierarchy has two key benefits for managing settings at scale. When associating a monitoring profile or alarm rule with a parent group, Cloudmon gives you the option to include all sub-groups. This means a single association at the EMEA level can apply the same profile or rule to every office in every country beneath it, without configuring each child group individually. User accounts can also be scoped to a specific group level, so a user assigned to the UAE group only sees devices within UAE and its child groups, while a user assigned to EMEA sees everything beneath it.
Cloudmon supports automatic assignment of agents to groups based on tags. When a tag is added to an agent and the same tag is configured on a group, the agent is automatically added to that group without any manual action. This is particularly useful in large environments where new agents are deployed frequently and should be assigned to the correct group as soon as they are discovered.