# Business Impact

The Business Impact section allows users to easily define the importance of a service is to their business. Services can be searched, filtered, and grouped by business impact on the main dashboard page. To set a business impact, simply click the desired level on the header.

The Business Impact of a service can be set to:

1. Critical
2. High
3. Medium
4. Low

![Business Impact Setting](https://1676458320-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LsNFVozLgvw3NDMzxBg%2Fsync%2Fd9b6b568bd576b1916ac93846e60afd028f130ff.png?generation=1605196242639832\&alt=media)

> NOTE: If you are unable to successfully set a new business impact or unable to click on a level, this means that you're not authorized to do so, or that the dashboard is unable to communicate with the Grey Matter Catalog Service.

## Using the CLI

Business impact can also be set with the `greymatter` CLI. Do this by modifying the `businessImpact` field of a service's `catalog_cluster` to the desired level. For example, to set the `slo` service's business impact to "high", open the `catalog_cluster` for editing.

```bash
greymatter edit catalog_cluster slo
```

Then, in the open editor window set `"businessImpact": "high"`. Your final object will look like the one below. Exit the editor to save the change.

```javascript
{
  "apiEndpoint": "services/slo/latest/",
  "apiSpecEndpoint": "/services/slo/latest/",
  "businessImpact": "high",
  "capability": "Sense",
  "clusterID": "",
  "clusterName": "slo",
  "description": "Grey Matter Service Level Objectives (SLOs) allows users to manage objectives towards service-level agreements.",
  "documentation": "/services/slo/latest/",
  "enableHistoricalMetrics": true,
  "enableInstanceMetrics": true,
  "externalLinks": [],
  "maxInstances": 1,
  "meshID": "",
  "metricsPort": 8081,
  "metricsTemplate": "",
  "minInstances": 1,
  "name": "Grey Matter Service Level Objectives",
  "owner": "Decipher",
  "ownerURL": "https://greymatter.io",
  "prometheusJob": "slo",
  "runtime": "GO",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "zoneName": "zone-default-zone"
}
```