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Date Published
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Grace Morgan
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631
Language
English
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Summary

DigitalOcean Monitoring and its service alerts provide insight into overall Droplet performance, offering two main ways to display CPU utilization: a scale of 0-100% or a total capacity of 100%. The latter is used by DigitalOcean as it provides a consistent way to think about capacity. When setting up Monitoring, users can choose a threshold percentage, such as 70%, regardless of the number of processors. For service alerts, DigitalOcean uses a sustained problem approach, measuring data each minute and calculating an average before triggering a notification. This ensures that notifications are not too prolific and do not become "notification fatigue". The system sends a single notification when a threshold is reached, with no additional notifications sent until the situation is resolved. Users can learn more about DigitalOcean alerts and notifications by exploring tutorials and documentation. Feedback is also welcome, and users can provide input through comments or UserVoice requests.