Team and account

Teams and roles

A team holds everything you monitor in Spectate: monitors, hosts, domains, alerts, incidents and status pages. Each team has its own plan, its own members and its own settings. Each member of a team has one role, and the role decides what the member can do in that team.

Teams

When you sign up, Spectate creates a team for you, named after you, for example "Jane Doe's Team". You are its owner. You can rename it under Team → Settings.

You can be a member of more than one team, for example one per company or customer. Every team has a separate plan and a separate bill. Data never moves between teams.

Create a team

In the dashboard, go to Team.
Select Create team.
Type the Team name.
Select Create team.

You become the owner of the new team. The dashboard switches to it. A new team starts with its own 14-day trial. See plans and billing.

A new team has a default project named Default, the same as the team you get when you sign up. New monitors, hosts and domains join it when you do not select a project.

Switch teams

The dashboard shows one team at a time, the current team.

Select the team name at the top of the sidebar.
Select the team that you want to use.

Manage teams in the same menu opens the Team page.

Team settings

Owners and managers can change the team settings under Team → Settings:

Setting	What it does
Team name	The name in the dashboard and in emails.
Contact email	Optional. At the team's first checkout for a plan or credits, Spectate gives this address to Vatly for invoices and receipts. Without it, Spectate gives Vatly the address of the member who starts the checkout.
Default timezone	The time zone for schedules and reports.
AI assistants	Whether AI assistants can use the team through the MCP server: Full, Read only or Off.

The Reference section shows the Team ID. Support may ask for it.

Roles

A team has five roles:

Role	In short
Owner	Everything, including billing and deleting the team. A team has one owner.
Manager	Everything except billing and deleting the team.
Admin	Configures monitoring, alerting, incidents and status pages. Cannot change team settings, members or API tokens.
Member	Sees everything. Creates and changes monitors and incidents, and acknowledges and resolves alerts.
Billing	Billing and support only.

What each role can do

What you can do	Owner	Manager	Admin	Member	Billing
See monitors, hosts, domains, alerts, incidents, status pages, projects and members	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create, change, pause and resume monitors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Delete monitors	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Add, change and delete hosts and their metric conditions	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Add, change and delete domains	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Acknowledge and resolve alerts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Delete resolved alerts	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Manage channels, escalation paths, alert sources and on-call schedules	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Declare, update and resolve incidents	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Delete incidents	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Create, change and delete status pages, their incidents and maintenance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Create, change and delete projects	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Change team settings	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Invite members, change roles and remove members	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Create and revoke team API tokens	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Choose a plan, buy credits, see invoices	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Delete the team, or restore it during the grace period	Yes	No	No	No	No
Transfer ownership to another member	Yes	No	No	No	No
Open and read support tickets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

The public API and the MCP server check the same permissions. A team API token can only get the abilities that the role of its creator has.

Change a role

Owners and managers can change the role of a member. See members. A role change cannot make a member the owner or change the owner's role.

Transfer ownership

The owner can make another member of the team the owner. The owner confirms with their password. The new owner gets the owner role, and the previous owner becomes a manager. Both get an email. A team always has exactly one owner. See transfer ownership for the steps.

Members: invite people, change roles, remove members and transfer ownership.
Plans and billing: the member limit of each plan.

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