> ### Working with database rule sets

> A database rule set is a set of rules that you associate with one or more database resources through a monitoring plan. Database rule sets are stored in the Fathom Component Library and provide a way for you to manage many databases by sharing rule definitions. In this way, you create a common set of rules that you can set up for multiple databases.

> Because each database rule set you create is stored in the Fathom Component Library, the rule set is available for your reuse or for use by others.

> You can also add individual rules to a monitoring plan, whether or not the rules are part of any rule set. Note that if you include a rule in a monitoring plan's rule set and then add the same rule individually again with modifications, the rule in the rule set is overridden by the rule with the modifications.

> Fathom provides a default database rule set. When a database resource is added to Fathom, a default monitoring plan, with the default rule set, is assigned to it.

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