Question

Is it possible to get metrics data via API in every 15 seconds as it is in Administration Panel

I am a newbie in Digital Ocean world and yesterday I discovered how easy I can get monitoring data for my droplets.

I noticed that in Administration Panel I can check graphs data for selected periods of time:

  • last 1 hour: data interval is set to 15 seconds,
  • last 6 hours: data interval is set to 20 seconds,
  • last 24h: data interval is set to 2 minutes,
  • etc.

In Digital Ocean’s API I am able to get metric data with 2 minutes interval, which is quite good, but I would like to know if it is possible to get data every 15/20 seconds?

In our company we would like to build a web application, which will consume data from metrics’ API and show info about CPU/memory usage for about 40 droplets on one page.

I checked if Digital Ocean Agent can be configured in that way, but I couldn’t find any config options for that service.

Any help/insight into this topic will be very appreciated.


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Bobby Iliev
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March 23, 2023

Hi there,

I think that this approach might not be very suitable. The DigitalOcean API has a rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/#section/Introduction/Rate-Limit

If you have 40 Droplets and want to query the API every 15 seconds you will very quickly hit the rate limit.

I think that a better approach would be to use a tool like Prometheus and Grafana to collect your metrics in a time series databases and have full control over what metrics are collected and how often you query it.

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

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