---
title: Workspaces
description: The container for everything — monitors, status pages, channels, members and billing.
sidebar:
  label: Workspaces
---

{/* Source of truth: packages/shared/src/workspace.ts (name, slug),
    packages/shared/src/dormancy.ts (DormancyStatuses, DORMANCY_THRESHOLDS),
    packages/api/src/workspaces/workspace-resolver.service.ts (resolution
    order: owned -> membership -> auto-create).

    There is deliberately no "multiple workspaces" section: there is no create
    endpoint, Routes.workspaces exposes `current` only, and the dashboard has no
    switcher. Do not reintroduce advice about running several. */}

A workspace holds your monitors, status pages, notification channels, projects,
members and subscription. Everything in Glowo belongs to exactly one workspace,
and data never crosses between them.

## You get one, automatically

You do not create a workspace — one is created for you the first time you sign
in, named after your account, and that is the workspace you work in from then
on. It has a name and a slug, both editable in settings.

There is no way to create a second workspace and no workspace switcher. To
organise what is inside yours, use [projects](/organization/projects): they
group monitors and status pages, and they are what
[notification channels](/alerting/channels) scope to.

The one way to be in someone else's workspace is to be
[invited](/organization/members-and-roles) to it as a member.

## Dormancy

Unused workspaces are cleaned up on a published schedule. Days are counted from
the last activity.

| After | State | What happens |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 60 days | `WARNING` | You are warned by email |
| 90 days | `SUSPENDED` | Checks stop running |
| 150 days | — | Final warning before deletion |
| 180 days | `PURGED` | Data is deleted |

Any activity resets the clock. This only affects genuinely abandoned
workspaces — a workspace running monitors is active by definition.

:::caution
Purging is permanent. If a workspace matters but is rarely opened, make sure the
warning emails go to an address someone still reads.
:::