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title: DigitalOcean Insights (public)
description: Explore metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and metric alerts for supported resources.
product: Insights
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/
last_updated: "2026-10-01"
---

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# DigitalOcean Insights (public)

Generated on 9 Oct 2026

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

[Getting Started](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/getting-started/index.html.md): Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.

[How-Tos](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/index.html.md): How to explore metrics, create and manage dashboards and alerts, and investigate logs and traces with DigitalOcean Insights.

[Reference](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/reference/index.html.md): Native and third-party tools, troubleshooting, and answers to frequently asked questions.

[Details](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/details/index.html.md): Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

[Support](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/support/index.html.md): Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.

## Latest Updates

### 1 October 2026

- DigitalOcean Insights is now available in [public preview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#public-preview), providing dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and metric alerts for supported DigitalOcean resources and regions. For more information, see [DigitalOcean Insights](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/details/features/index.html.md).
- The DigitalOcean API now supports querying Insights metrics and logs and managing alert rules and notification channels in [public preview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#public-preview). For available operations and endpoint details, see the [DigitalOcean Insights API Reference](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/reference/insights/index.html.md).

### 22 September 2026

- DigitalOcean Insights is now enabled by default when you create a new DigitalOcean Managed Agents resource. Insights is in [private preview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#private-preview).

### 16 September 2026

- DigitalOcean Insights now supports exploring and querying metrics in [private preview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#private-preview). You can explore, filter, compare, and save metrics to dashboards. For more information, see [How to Explore and Query Metrics](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/insights/how-to/explore-query-metrics/index.html.md).

For more information, see [all Insights release notes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/insights/index.html.md).