Multitenancy Overview

Introduction

Multitenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of an application serves multiple customer organizations.

Tenant vs. Site

The co.brick observe platform distinguishes between two main concepts:

• Tenant: An organization or a distinct subset of an organization that owns its specific data in the system. Typically, a tenant represents a billable entity. A tenant can have multiple sites.

• Site: A division or unit within a tenant's environment that might represent different geographical locations, physical devices, or logical entities managed by the tenant, yet are isolated from each other.

Shared Configuration

Beyond the logical separation of tenants and sites within a tenant, the co.brick observe platform allows shared configuration to be delegated from sites to the tenant. This reduces the need to duplicate configurations across multiple sites and simplifies maintenance in case of changes.

For more information, see Alert management.