Monitoring

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.

Getting Started

Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Reference

Native and third-party tools, troubleshooting, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Monitoring.

Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

Latest Updates

20 August 2021

• Releasedv1.64.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes support for managing App Platform alerts.

9 August 2021

• Releasedv1.63.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of new features:

  • Thedatabase firewall sub-commands now support apps as trusted sources
  • Newmonitoring alert sub-commands for creating and managing alert policies
  • The--droplet-agent flag was added to thecompute droplet create sub-command to optionally disable installing the agent for the Droplet web console

15 May 2020

• The retention period forDroplet performance metrics has been decreased from 30 days to 14 days.

For more information, seeall Monitoring release notes.