Monitoring
DigitalOcean Monitoring is a free, opt-in service that gathers and displays metrics about Droplet-level resource utilization. Monitoring supports configurable alert policies with integrated email and Slack notifications to help you track the operational health of your infrastructure.
Most Viewed Monitoring Articles
- How to Install the DigitalOcean Metrics Agent
- Monitoring Metrics
- How to Set Up Resource Alerts
- How to Upgrade from the Legacy Metrics Agent to the Current Agent
- Monitoring Pricing
- How to Remove the DigitalOcean Metrics Agent Package or Repository from Droplets
- How can I allowlist the DigitalOcean metrics agent with my firewall?
- Monitoring Features
- Monitoring Details
- How to Opt Out of Process Name Collection
Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.
How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.
Native and third-party tools, troubleshooting, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Monitoring.
Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.
Latest Updates
20 August 2021
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Released v1.64.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes support for managing App Platform alerts.
9 August 2021
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Released v1.63.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of new features:
- The
database firewallsub-commands now support apps as trusted sources - New
monitoring alertsub-commands for creating and managing alert policies - The
--droplet-agentflag was added to thecompute droplet createsub-command to optionally disable installing the agent for the Droplet web console
- The
15 May 2020
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The retention period for Droplet performance metrics has been decreased from 30 days to 14 days.
For more information, see all Monitoring release notes.