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= Developer and non-administrator steps
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After monitoring for user-defined projects is enabled and configured, developers and other non-administrator users can then perform the following activities to set up and use monitoring for their own projects:

* xref:../../../observability/monitoring/configuring-user-workload-monitoring/configuring-metrics-uwm.adoc#setting-up-metrics-collection-for-user-defined-projects_configuring-metrics-uwm[Deploy and monitor services].
* xref:../../../observability/monitoring/managing-alerts/managing-alerts-as-a-developer.adoc#managing-alerting-rules-for-user-defined-projects-uwm_managing-alerts-as-a-developer[Create and manage alerting rules].
* xref:../../../observability/monitoring/managing-alerts/managing-alerts-as-a-developer.adoc#managing-alerts-as-a-developer[Receive and manage alerts] for your projects.
* If granted the `alert-routing-edit` cluster role, xref:../../../observability/monitoring/configuring-user-workload-monitoring/configuring-alerts-and-notifications-uwm.adoc#configuring-alert-routing-for-user-defined-projects_configuring-alerts-and-notifications-uwm[configure alert routing].
* xref:../../../observability/monitoring/accessing-metrics/accessing-metrics-as-a-developer.adoc#reviewing-monitoring-dashboards-developer_accessing-metrics-as-a-developer[View dashboards] by using the {product-title} web console.
* xref:../../../observability/monitoring/accessing-metrics/accessing-metrics-as-a-developer.adoc#querying-metrics-for-user-defined-projects-with-mon-dashboard_accessing-metrics-as-a-developer[Query the collected metrics] by creating PromQL queries or using predefined queries.
