Creating a team

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Last edited: Dec 20, 2024

Teams are available to customers on select plans

Teams are only available to customers on select plans. To learn more, read about our pricing. To upgrade your plan, contact Sales.

Overview

This topic explains how to create a new team in LaunchDarkly and the order in which to create teams and custom roles.

Create a team

Creating teams is an Admin-only feature

Any LaunchDarkly member can access the Teams list to view team data, but only members with an Admin role, Owner role, or custom role that allows the createTeam action can create teams. To learn more, read About member roles and Team actions.

Use the Teams page to create new teams or to edit existing teams, add and remove members to and from teams, and control what permissions the team has using custom roles.

To create a new team:

Click the gear icon in the left sidenav to view Organization settings.
Click Teams.
Click Create team. The "Create team" dialog appears.
Give the team a human-readable Name.
(Optional) Modify the team's Key if you follow naming practices that require it.
(Optional) Update the Maintainer for this team.
(Optional) Enter a Description.
Click Create team.

Team limits

By default, LaunchDarkly allows you to create 100 teams per account. You can create more upon request. To learn more, read How to right size when you are over LaunchDarkly system resource count limits.

You can also use the REST API: Create team