digitalocean_monitor_alert
Generated on 14 Oct 2025
from Terraform version
v2.68.0
Provides a DigitalOcean Monitoring resource. Monitor alerts can be configured to alert about, e.g., disk or memory usage exceeding a certain threshold or traffic at a certain limit. Notifications can be sent to either an email address or a Slack channel.
Basic Example
# Create a new Web Droplet in the nyc2 region
resource "digitalocean_droplet" "web" {
image = "ubuntu-20-04-x64"
name = "web-1"
region = "nyc2"
size = "s-1vcpu-1gb"
}
resource "digitalocean_monitor_alert" "cpu_alert" {
alerts {
email = ["[email protected]"]
slack {
channel = "Production Alerts"
url = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T1234567/AAAAAAAA/ZZZZZZ"
}
}
window = "5m"
type = "v1/insights/droplet/cpu"
compare = "GreaterThan"
value = 95
enabled = true
entities = [digitalocean_droplet.web.id]
description = "Alert about CPU usage"
}Argument Reference
The following arguments are supported:
alerts- (Required) How to send notifications about the alerts. This is a list with one element, . Note that for Slack, the DigitalOcean app needs to have permissions for your workspace. You can read more in Slack’s documentationdescription- (Required) The description of the alert.compare- (Required) The comparison forvalue. This may be eitherGreaterThanorLessThan.type- (Required) The type of the alert. This may be one ofv1/insights/droplet/load_1,v1/insights/droplet/load_5,v1/insights/droplet/load_15,v1/insights/droplet/memory_utilization_percent,v1/insights/droplet/disk_utilization_percent,v1/insights/droplet/cpu,v1/insights/droplet/disk_read,v1/insights/droplet/disk_write,v1/insights/droplet/public_outbound_bandwidth,v1/insights/droplet/public_inbound_bandwidth,v1/insights/droplet/private_outbound_bandwidth,v1/insights/droplet/private_inbound_bandwidth,v1/insights/lbaas/avg_cpu_utilization_percent,v1/insights/lbaas/connection_utilization_percent,v1/insights/lbaas/droplet_health,v1/insights/lbaas/tls_connections_per_second_utilization_percent,v1/insights/lbaas/increase_in_http_error_rate_percentage_5xx,v1/insights/lbaas/increase_in_http_error_rate_percentage_4xx,v1/insights/lbaas/increase_in_http_error_rate_count_5xx,v1/insights/lbaas/increase_in_http_error_rate_count_4xx,v1/insights/lbaas/high_http_request_response_time,v1/insights/lbaas/high_http_request_response_time_50p,v1/insights/lbaas/high_http_request_response_time_95p,v1/insights/lbaas/high_http_request_response_time_99p,v1/dbaas/alerts/load_15_alerts,v1/dbaas/alerts/cpu_alerts,v1/dbaas/alerts/memory_utilization_alerts, orv1/dbaas/alerts/disk_utilization_alerts.enabled- (Required) The status of the alert.entities- A list of IDs for the resources to which the alert policy applies.tags- A list of tags. When an included tag is added to a resource, the alert policy will apply to it.value- (Required) The value to start alerting at, e.g., 90% or 85Mbps. This is a floating-point number. DigitalOcean will show the correct unit in the web panel.window- (Required) The time frame of the alert. Either5m,10m,30m, or1h.
Attributes Reference
The following attributes are exported.
uuid- The uuid of the alert.window- The time frame of the alert.enabled- The status of the alert.entities- The resources for which the alert policy appliestype- The type of the alert.value- The percentage to start alerting at.tags- Tags for the alert.value- The percentage to start alerting at, e.g., 90.alerts- The notification policies of the alert policy.description- The description of the alert.
Import
Monitor alerts can be imported using the monitor alert uuid, e.g.
terraform import digitalocean_monitor_alert.cpu_alert b8ecd2ab-2267-4a5e-8692-cbf1d32583e3