# Projects

**Projects** are the main container that Sleuth uses to organize your deployments. For example, a project can correlate to a product that your company offers, a collection of micro services or any collection of [deployments](/sleuth-dora/modeling-your-deployments/code-deployments.md), [environments](/sleuth-dora/modeling-your-deployments/environment-support.md) and [impact sources](/sleuth-dora/settings/project/impact.md) that model how you work.

A project gives you a high-level view your Accelerate (DORA) metrics and of all the changes and deploys happening within. With your project you can:

* See, at a glance, if it's safe to deploy your next change
* Track your Project's DORA metrics (deploy frequency, change lead time, change failure rate, MTTR and deploy size)
* Filter Project-level DORA metrics by specific Code deployments, environments, and contributing [Teams](/sleuth-dora/modeling-your-deployments/teams.md)
* Know the latest change made to each deployment and it's drift from your other environments
* Slice and dice your past deploys via a [powerful search](/sleuth-dora/modeling-your-deployments/code-deployments/search.md)
* Configure Slack or Email deploy [notifications for your team or individuals](/sleuth-dora/notifications.md)
* Know the health and Impact of your deploys via your key SLIs

<figure><img src="/files/8KBSRAVTQxY5OOZ4ZSj7" alt=""><figcaption><p>Metrics dashboard for a specific Project</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/vltwsgyR9OBqYEnp8PdW" alt=""><figcaption><p>Status dashboard for a specific Project</p></figcaption></figure>

## Further Reading

For additional information on how Sleuth calculates and presents "percent change" for the Project Metrics dashboard for other dashboards and views, see [Interpreting "Percent Change" in Sleuth](/sleuth-dora/accelerate-metrics/how-we-calculate.md#interpreting-percent-change).


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