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.
Our metrics agent occasionally collects process name data from users. We analyze it in aggregate to guide feature prioritization. However, you can choose to opt out of process name collection.
To do so, log in to your Droplet as root or as a user with sudo access. The commands you should execute depend on whether your operating system uses systemctl or initctl. To check, you can use commands like command -v systemctl or which systemctl, which outputs a path if your system uses systemctl or outputs nothing if it doesn’t.
On operating systems with systemctl (like Ubuntu 16.04+, Debian, CentOS 7+, and Fedora), you need to add the --no-collector.processes flag to the end of the start command in /etc/systemd/system/do-agent.service. You can edit the file directly, or use the following sed command. Then, you need to restart the agent to put the changes into effect.
On operating systems with initctl (like Ubuntu 14.04, and CentOS 6.9), you need to add the --no-collector.processes flag to the end of the exec command in /etc/init/do-agent.conf. You can edit the file directly, or use the following sed command. Then, you need to restart the agent to put the changes into effect.