# Is the 5,000 limit strictly for the number of monitors that can be created or is this the total number of requests?

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**Created:** [January 29, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-the-5-000-limit-strictly-for-the-number-of-monitors-that-can-be-created-or-is-this-the-total-number-of-requests/49994 "2025-01-29T19:06:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gosia\_Murawska](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Gosia\_Murawska](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Gosia_Murawska)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/is-the-5-000-limit-strictly-for-the-number-of-monitors-that-can-be-created-or-is-this-the-total-number-of-requests/49994/1 "2025-01-29T19:06:57Z")

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Would a NAM with 5 requests in it count as 1 or as 5?

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**Author:** ![Jacek\_Janowicz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/jacek_janowicz/32/38815_2.png) [@Jacek\_Janowicz](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Jacek_Janowicz)\
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The limitation of 5000 monitors per environment (mentioned [here](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe/digital-experience/synthetic-monitoring/network-availability-monitors/network-availability-monitoring#number-of-monitors)) is a separate limit. You can have up to 5000 NAM monitors regardless of their size or complexity, whether they have 1, 5, or 50 requests. &nbsp;  
[This is not a hard limit, and it might be increased. In case of such a need, please contact the Dynatrace team you’re working with and ask them to contact Product Management team to increase the limit]&nbsp;  
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Additionally, you should consider the total complexity of the monitors when planning resources to ensure proper private location capacity to handle the expected load. Then, each NAM monitor is limited to a specific size or complexity, defined as 1000 network activities per monitor (mentioned [here](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/network-availability-monitoring#number-of-requests)).

Keep in mind that network activity is not quite the same as a request. Network activity refers to the interactions and data exchanges that occur over a network, taking into account that different network protocols may require multiple round trips to complete what NAM monitor perceives as a single request. This covers all the steps involved in sending and receiving data, ensuring that the full scope of network communication is considered beyond just individual requests. A single DNS or TCP request is counted as a single network activity. For ICMP, each sent packet is considered a single network activity - for example, a monitor with one step containing two requests sending five packets each, is performing ten network activities during each execution.