# doctl monitoring – DigitalOcean Documentation

> The sub-commands of `doctl monitoring` manage the monitoring on your account.

You can create alert policies to monitor the resource consumption of your Droplets, and uptime checks to monitor the availability of your websites and services



## doctl monitoring alert

The commands under `doctl monitoring alert` are for managing alert policies.

You can apply alert policies to resources in order to receive alerts on resource consumption. 
			
If you'd like to alert on the uptime of a specific URL or IP address, use `doctl monitoring uptime alert` instead

- [doctl monitoring alert create](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/create/index.html.md): Creates a new alert policy. You can create policies that monitor various metrics of your Droplets and send you alerts when a metric exceeds a specified threshold. For example, you can create a policy that monitors a Droplet's CPU usage and triggers an …
- [doctl monitoring alert delete](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/delete/index.html.md): Deletes an alert policy.
- [doctl monitoring alert get](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/get/index.html.md): Retrieves an alert policy and its configuration.
- [doctl monitoring alert list](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/list/index.html.md): Retrieves a list of all the alert policies in your account.
- [doctl monitoring alert update](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/alert/update/index.html.md): Updates an existing alert policy.

## doctl monitoring uptime

The sub-commands of `doctl uptime` manage your uptime checks.

DigitalOcean Uptime Checks provide the ability to monitor your endpoints from around the world,
and alert you when they're slow, unavailable, or SSL certificates are expiring.

- [doctl monitoring uptime alert create](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/create/index.html.md): Creates an alert policy for an uptime check. You can create an alert policy based on the following metrics: - `latency`: Alerts on the response latency. `--threshold` value is an integer representing milliseconds. - `down`: Alerts on whether the endpoints …
- [doctl monitoring uptime create](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/create/index.html.md): Creates an uptime check on your account. Uptime checks monitor any endpoint that is accessible over HTTP, HTTPS, ping (ICMP). You can use this check to set up an alert policy using the `doctl monitoring uptime alert` commands.
- [doctl monitoring uptime alert delete](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/delete/index.html.md): Deletes an uptime check on your account by ID.
- [doctl monitoring uptime delete](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/delete/index.html.md): Deletes an uptime check on your account.
- [doctl monitoring uptime alert get](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/get/index.html.md): Retrieves information about an uptime alert policy.
- [doctl monitoring uptime get](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/get/index.html.md): Retrieves information about an uptime check on your account.
- [doctl monitoring uptime alert list](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/list/index.html.md): Retrieves a list of the alert policies for an uptime check.
- [doctl monitoring uptime list](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/list/index.html.md): Retrieves a list of all of the uptime checks on your account.
- [doctl monitoring uptime alert update](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/update/index.html.md): Updates an uptime alert configuration.
- [doctl monitoring uptime update](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/update/index.html.md): Updates an uptime check on your account. All of these flags are required. Uptime checks cannot be disabled via `doctl`. You can only disable them using the control panel or the public API.