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How to Enable Monitoring on Digital Ocean VPS (Droplets)?

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You can easily enable the resource monitoring on Digital Oceans VPS, the droplets.

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You first need to SSH connect and switch to your root account (or other sudo accounts) and type in the following:

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curl -sSL https://agent.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sh
curl -sSL https://agent.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sh

The script will install the monitoring daemon on your server – which shouldn’t take long:

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And after a few minutes, you should see the resources usages on your Digital Oceans dashboard.

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After Resource Monitoring is enabled, you can also create alerts to send notification when e.g. CPU usage is too high for 5 minutes or memory usage is too high etc.

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Monitoring the Digital Oceans droplets becomes easy without need to login to console. All Resources are monitored and shown on the dashboard.

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