DigitalOcean Insights is intended for evaluation during the public preview and should not be used as the primary observability system for production workloads.
DigitalOcean Insights Limitspublic
Last verified 1 Oct 2026
DigitalOcean Insights provides observability for supported resources through metrics, logs, traces, custom dashboards, and metric alerts.
Limits
- Not all DigitalOcean resources are supported, and available telemetry varies by resource type and configuration.
- Metric definitions and collection cadence are still being finalized for some resources.
- Dashboards may not support every visualization or configuration.
- Insights does not currently support the DigitalOcean CLI.
- You cannot use the DigitalOcean API to create, retrieve, update, delete, or customize Insights dashboards, including adding or grouping charts. Use the DigitalOcean Control Panel to manage and customize dashboards instead.
- You cannot export trace data.
- You cannot use the DigitalOcean API to retrieve traces or spans. Use the Control Panel to view traces and spans instead.
- Alert history is available for up to 30 days.
- Log sampling, exclusion filters, field dropping, and pre-ingestion filtering are not supported.
- Metric queries can span multiple regions, but each region appears as a separate series. You cannot aggregate raw metric data across regions.
- Metrics use their native collection resolution, which is one minute by default. You cannot reduce the metric data resolution or create pre-aggregated historical metric data.
- You cannot currently select resources by tag when creating an alert rule.
- You cannot mute notifications for an individual active alert.
- During the public preview, alerts, logs, dashboards, and traces show data from one region at a time.