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title: "Create segments for teams | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to create segments so each team can view and manage recommendations and rules for only their own metrics."
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# Create segments for teams

As your organization grows, you can use segmentation to manage Adaptive Metrics on a per-team or per-service basis. With segments in place, each team filters the UI to view recommendations and manage rules that apply only to their specific metrics. This empowers them to control their own metric costs and cardinality.

To create a segment, complete the following steps.

1. Navigate to **Adaptive Metrics** > **Segments**.
2. Click **Add new segment**.
3. Enter a name.
   
   Give your segment a descriptive name that clearly identifies the team it applies to.
4. Enter a label.
   
   Specify the metric label that distinguishes the metrics belonging to a particular team. In the context of Kubernetes, this is often namespace.
5. Enter a value.
   
   Define the criteria for matching the label you specified. This is where you tell Grafana which values of that label correspond to the current team’s metrics. In the UI, you can select values using a dropdown. Enter the exact name of the Kubernetes namespace(s) or label value(s) for the team (e.g., web-frontend, web-backend). If a team owns multiple namespaces, you can enter multiple values.
   
   > Note
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   > Each value can only be used once. Therefore, after a value is added to a segment, it can’t be used in another.
6. (Optional): Select **Fallback to default rules** checkbox.
   
   Select this checkbox to apply the general, default aggregation rules to any metrics that do not belong to a specific team segment. When unchecked (default), these unmatched metrics are ignored.
7. Click **Add**.

In the next milestone, you’ll learn how to automatically apply recommendations.