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title: DigitalOcean Insights How-Tos (public)
description: How to explore metrics, create and manage dashboards and alerts, and investigate logs and traces with DigitalOcean Insights.
product: Insights
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/
last_updated: "2026-10-01"
---

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# DigitalOcean Insights How-Tos (public)

Generated on 3 Oct 2026

DigitalOcean Insights provides observability for supported resources through metrics, logs, traces, custom dashboards, and metric alerts.

## Observe Data

[How to Explore and Query Metrics](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/explore-query-metrics/index.html.md): Explore available metrics, compare metric data, and create charts for your dashboards.

[How to View Traces](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/view-traces/index.html.md): Search, filter, and inspect traces and spans to investigate requests across supported DigitalOcean services and resources.

[How to View Logs](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/view-logs/index.html.md): Search, filter, and inspect logs across supported DigitalOcean resources.

## Manage Alerts

[How to Create, Edit, and Delete Metric Alerts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/manage-metrics-alerts/index.html.md): Create, edit, and delete metric alert rules and notification channels for supported DigitalOcean resources.

## Manage Custom Dashboards

[How to Create, Edit, and Delete Dashboards](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/manage-custom-dashboards/index.html.md): Create, edit, and delete custom dashboards to monitor resource health and performance across your DigitalOcean resources.

[How to Customize Dashboards](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/customize-dashboards/index.html.md): Configure dashboards with charts, queries, variables, and groups to monitor resource health and performance across your DigitalOcean resources.