Monitoring
DigitalOcean’s Monitoring service handles the heavy lifting of collecting metrics and tracking application performance. It automatically issues alerts when infrastructure issues pop up, removing the need for manual configuration. This setup ensures visibility into system health without requiring you to build out complex monitoring pipelines from scratch.
This fits teams that want immediate observability without managing agent setups or tuning thresholds. The main trade-off is the lack of a free tier, meaning every project incurs costs under the pay-as-you-go model. You are paying for convenience, so budget accordingly if you need basic metrics across many small instances.
- Free tier No
- Pricing Pay as you go
- Regions 8 · 3 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 5 certifications
- Provider health B
Decision score
Computed from catalog breadth, pricing, provider reliability (uptime & SLA), community signal, and ecosystem (compliance & regions). Weighted equally.
Trust & reach via DigitalOcean
- C5
- CSA STAR
- FedRAMP
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- ISO 27001
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
- ISO 9001
- PCI DSS
- SOC 1 Type II
- SOC 2 Type II
- compute99.99%
- database99.99%
- networking99.99%
- storage99.95%
8 regions across 3 continents
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
Alternatives on other providers
Equivalent services on other clouds:
- AWS Amazon CloudWatch $0.0100 per 1M Samples Scanneds Compare
- Google Cloud Platform Cloud Monitoring no price Compare
- Microsoft Azure Azure Monitor $10.00 per 1M units Compare