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name: digitalocean-management description: DigitalOcean management services for monitoring, uptime checks, and resource organization with Projects. Use when setting up observability, alerts, and operational visibility on DigitalOcean. user-invocable: false disable-model-invocation: true progressive_disclosure: entry_point: summary: "DigitalOcean management services for monitoring, uptime checks, and resource organization with Projects. Use when setting up observability, alerts, and operational visibility on DigitalOcean." when_to_use: "When working with version control, branches, or pull requests." quick_start: "1. Review the core concepts below. 2. Apply patterns to your use case. 3. Follow best practices for implementation."

DigitalOcean Management Skill

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progressive_disclosure: entry_point: summary: "DigitalOcean management: Monitoring, Uptime checks, Projects for resource organization and operational visibility." when_to_use: - "When setting up monitoring and alerting" - "When organizing resources into projects" - "When tracking uptime for services" quick_start: - "Create Projects for each environment" - "Enable Monitoring and alerts" - "Configure Uptime checks" - "Review dashboards regularly" token_estimate: entry: 90-110 full: 3200-4300

Overview

DigitalOcean management services provide monitoring, uptime checks, and resource organization to keep workloads healthy and visible.

Monitoring

• Enable monitoring for Droplets and clusters.
• Track CPU, memory, and disk metrics.
• Configure alerts for critical thresholds.

Uptime

• Create checks for URLs, hostnames, and IPs.
• Set alert notifications for downtime and latency.
• Monitor SSL expiration where applicable.

Projects

• Group resources by application or environment.
• Use Projects to scope ownership and visibility.

Operational Workflow

• Standardize Projects and naming.
• Enable Monitoring and baseline alerts.
• Add Uptime checks for public endpoints.
• Review metrics and alerts after deployments.

Complementary Skills

When using this skill, consider these related skills (if deployed):

• digitalocean-networking: Load balancers and DNS routing visibility.
• digitalocean-storage: Backup and snapshot strategy.
• digitalocean-managed-databases: Database metrics and alerts.

Note: Complementary skills are optional. This skill is fully functional without them.

Resources

DigitalOcean Docs:

• Management: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/management/
• Monitoring: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/
• Uptime: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/
• Projects: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/projects/