Monitoring Release Notes

Validated on 3 Nov 2025

November 2025

3 November

• 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.

August 2021

20 August

• Released v1.64.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes support for managing App Platform alerts.

9 August

• Released v1.63.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of new features:

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

May 2020

15 May

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

July 2019

3 July

• The installation repo for the metrics agent has been moved to DigitalOcean Spaces.

June 2019

17 June

• 6-hour and 1-day alert policies for Droplets and Kubernetes worker nodes have been deprecated. No new alert policies with these intervals can be created. Existing alert policies using these intervals will remain in place until 1 August 2019, at which point they will be modified to reflect a 1-hour interval.

May 2019

21 May

• DigitalOcean Kubernetes is now Generally Available. Highlights include:

  • Availability in SGP1 and TOR1.

  • Support for patch version upgrades.

  • Configurable maintenance window and automatic upgrade options.

  • Delete node feature, which removes a specific node from a worker pool.

  • Basic and advanced monitoring insights for resource utilization and deployment status metrics.

9 May

• Managed databases are now in General Availability. New features include enhanced monitoring insights, support for projects and tags, and availability in the Singapore (SGP1) region.

April 2019

9 April

• The new metrics agent is fully released into production. Highlights include:

  • A simpler way to contribute custom metrics

  • A new load average plot

  • Fedora 27 support

  • Process name collection opt-out

  This will be the default agent used by our managed databases and Kubernetes products. All agent installations on or after this date will receive the new agent by default. On 8 July 2019, the legacy metrics agent will be deprecated, meaning users will no longer be able to view metrics from Droplets running the legacy agent. You can upgrade to the new agent at any time.

February 2019

27 February

• Public beta was opened for the new metrics agent. See how to update your metrics agent here.

4 February

• Added the Droplet name to the subject line in metrics alert email notifications.

January 2019

29 January

• To ensure the accuracy of reported metrics, the top processes graphs were removed from Monitoring. Instead, you can monitor resource-consuming processes with tools like top.