# Add a management zone in a alerting profile

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-a-management-zone-in-a-alerting-profile/36186>\
**Category:** Open Q&A\
**Tags:** management-zones, problems-classic\
**Created:** [August 10, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-a-management-zone-in-a-alerting-profile/36186 "2022-08-10T10:46:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pranav1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@Pranav1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Pranav1)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-a-management-zone-in-a-alerting-profile/36186/1 "2022-08-10T10:46:38Z")

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1. Is it possible to create an alerting profile with more than one management zones included in it?

2. Can we add a tag to all the entities that comes under a management zone , without creating each rule for hosts, synthetics, services…etc ?by using a mz.

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**Author:** ![andre\_f](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/andre_f/32/29172_2.png) [@andre\_f](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/andre_f)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-a-management-zone-in-a-alerting-profile/36186/2 "2022-08-10T11:29:09Z")

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Hi [@Pranav1](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/48767)

To question 1: No, it is not possible to include multiple Management Zones in one Alerting Profile. The API documentation shows that only one zone is selectable (no array).

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**Author:** ![andre\_f](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/andre_f/32/29172_2.png) [@andre\_f](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/andre_f)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-a-management-zone-in-a-alerting-profile/36186/3 "2022-08-10T11:33:42Z")

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To question 2:&nbsp;As far as I know, this is not possible. Also, I would rather recommend adding automatically applied tags to entities and assigning the entities to management zones based on these tags.

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**Author:** ![andre\_f](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/andre_f/32/29172_2.png) [@andre\_f](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/andre_f)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-a-management-zone-in-a-alerting-profile/36186/4 "2022-08-10T11:36:53Z")

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Forgot to add the link to&nbsp;[documentation alerting profiles API](https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/api-config-alerting-profiles-post-profile#request-body-objects)

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**Author:** ![Pranav1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@Pranav1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Pranav1)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-a-management-zone-in-a-alerting-profile/36186/5 "2022-08-10T11:41:26Z")

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Here the situation is there are many hosts, services, and other entities now the problem is the limit is 150 for an&nbsp;automatically applied tag.

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**Author:** ![andre\_f](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/andre_f/32/29172_2.png) [@andre\_f](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/andre_f)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/add-a-management-zone-in-a-alerting-profile/36186/6 "2022-08-10T11:58:16Z")

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I don’t know the environment and the use case of course, but isn’t it possible to use e.g. HostGroups as condition (to include many hosts) or to use “Apply to underlying hosts of matching process groups” / “Apply to all services by the process groups” (as an example for process groups)?&nbsp;To simply include many entities with as few rules as possible.