# Monitoring Availability

DigitalOcean Monitoring is a free, opt-in service that lets you track Droplet resource usage in real time, visualize performance metrics, and receive alerts via email or Slack to proactively manage your infrastructure’s health.

You must [install the DigitalOcean metrics agent](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/how-to/install-metrics-agent/index.html.md) on all participating Droplets.

DigitalOcean Monitoring is available in all active datacenter regions. Standard and AI/ML workloads support both metrics collection and the Insights dashboard.

## GPU Observability Availability

GPU Observability extends DigitalOcean Insights to include GPU-level metrics for NVIDIA and AMD GPU (upon request) Droplets created using AI/ML-Ready Images.

**Note**: The power throttling GPU metric is currently available only for AMD GPUs. NVIDIA support is planned but not yet available. To use AMD GPUs, [contact support to request access](https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com).

Monitoring with GPU metrics is available in all [GPU-supported regions](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/details/availability/index.html.md) where AI/ML Ready Droplets are offered.

You can use GPU Observability automatically with **AI/ML Ready Images**. For **Basic Images**, you can enable GPU metrics by [manually installing the exporter](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/gpu/enable-metrics/index.html.md), binding it to `127.0.0.1`, reconfiguring `do-agent` to scrape it, and restarting `do-agent`.