How to Explore and Query Metrics
Explore available metrics, compare metric data, and create charts for your dashboards.
DigitalOcean Insights How-Tospublic
Generated on 2 Oct 2026
DigitalOcean Insights provides observability for supported resources through metrics, logs, traces, custom dashboards, and metric alerts.
Observe Data
How to View Traces
Search, filter, and inspect traces and spans to investigate requests across supported DigitalOcean services and resources.
How to View Logs
Search, filter, and inspect logs across supported DigitalOcean resources.
Manage Alerts
How to Create, Edit, and Delete Metric Alerts
Create, edit, and delete metric alert rules and notification channels for supported DigitalOcean resources.
Manage Custom Dashboards
How to Create, Edit, and Delete Dashboards
Create, edit, and delete custom dashboards to monitor resource health and performance across your DigitalOcean resources.
How to Customize Dashboards
Configure dashboards with charts, queries, variables, and groups to monitor resource health and performance across your DigitalOcean resources.