DigitalOcean Monitoring Overview

Introduction

Built-in monitoring provides metrics, alerts, and insights for all DigitalOcean resources.

Key Features

• Resource metrics (CPU, memory, disk, bandwidth)
• Custom alerts
• Uptime monitoring
• Performance insights
• Free for all resources

Available Metrics

Droplet Metrics

- CPU usage (%)
- Memory usage (%)
- Disk usage (%)
- Disk I/O
- Bandwidth (inbound/outbound)
- Network traffic

Database Metrics

- CPU usage
- Memory usage
- Disk usage
- Connection count
- Query performance
- Replication lag

Kubernetes Metrics

- Node CPU/memory
- Pod CPU/memory
- Cluster health
- Resource utilization

Setting Up Alerts

# Enable monitoring
doctl compute droplet-action enable-monitoring <droplet-id>

# Create alert policy (via control panel)
# Droplets → Monitoring → Create Alert Policy

Alert Types:
├─> CPU > 80%
├─> Memory > 90%
├─> Disk > 90%
└─> Bandwidth > threshold

Viewing Metrics

Control Panel:
├─> Droplets → Select Droplet → Graphs
├─> Databases → Select DB → Insights
└─> Kubernetes → Select Cluster → Insights

Time Ranges:
├─> Last hour
├─> Last 6 hours
├─> Last 24 hours
└─> Last 7 days

Integration

Export to:
├─> Datadog
├─> New Relic
├─> Prometheus
└─> Custom endpoints