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Monitoring
Generated on 19 Aug 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.
Most Viewed Monitoring Articles- How to Install the DigitalOcean Metrics Agent
- Droplet Metrics
- How to Create, Edit, and Delete Resource Alerts
- Monitoring Quickstart
- Monitoring Features
- Monitoring Pricing
- Monitoring Reference
- How can I allowlist the DigitalOcean metrics agent with my firewall?
- How to Upgrade Your Legacy Metrics Agent
- GPU Metrics
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Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.
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How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.
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Native and third-party tools, troubleshooting, and answers to frequently asked questions.
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Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Monitoring.
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Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.
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Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.
Latest Updates
3 November 2025
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DigitalOcean Insights now supports GPU-level observability for AMD and NVIDIA GPU Droplets and for GPU-enabled Kubernetes clusters (DOKS) running DOKS 1.33.1-do.5 or higher.
20 August 2021
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Released v1.64.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes support for managing App Platform alerts.
9 August 2021
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Released v1.63.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of new features:
- The
database firewallsub-commands now support apps as trusted sources - New
monitoring alertsub-commands for creating and managing alert policies - The
--droplet-agentflag was added to thecompute droplet createsub-command to optionally disable installing the agent for the Droplet web console
- The
For more information, see all Monitoring release notes.
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