Monitoring Reference

Validated on 22 Apr 2022 • Last edited on 12 May 2026

DigitalOcean Monitoring is a free, opt-in service that helps you track Droplet resource usage, view performance metrics, and receive alerts. The DigitalOcean metrics agent is an open-source Go utility that collects and sends system metrics to DigitalOcean to enable features such as usage graphs, alerts, and custom metrics.

The DigitalOcean API

The DigitalOcean API lets you manage resources programmatically with standard HTTP requests. All actions available in the control panel are also available through the API.

The DigitalOcean Command Line Client, doctl

doctl is the command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API. It supports most of the same actions available in the API and DigitalOcean Control Panel.

The DigitalOcean MCP Server

The DigitalOcean MCP server lets you use natural language prompts to interact with DigitalOcean Insights features, including uptime checks, alert policies, and metrics across droplets, apps, and other resources.

More Resources

DigitalOcean Monitoring API Reference

Use the DigitalOcean API to programmatically retrieve metrics and configure metrics alert policies.

doctl compute volume

The sub-commands of doctl monitoring manages monitoring on your account from the command line.

DigitalOcean MCP Insights Server

MCP tools for managing DigitalOcean monitoring features.

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