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How to Monitor a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

Updated on November 27, 2024

Monitoring an instance provides information about performance and usage statistics. This enables you to keep track of your instance activity and usage ratio depending on the running services.

Follow this guide to monitor a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI

  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.

    Navigate to Products in the Vultr Customer Portal

  2. Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.

    Open the Instance management panel

  3. View the instance usage summary within the Overview section.

    View the instance usage summary

  4. Navigate to the Usage Graphs tab to monitor your instance usage statistics.

  5. Monitor the instance bandwidth usage statistics within the Monthly Bandwidth section.

    Monitor the instance bandwidth stats

  1. Send a GET request to the List Bare Metal Instances endpoint and note the target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a POST request to the Bare Metal Bandwidth endpoint to monitor the target instance's bandwidth usage statistics.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals/{baremetal-id}/bandwidth" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List all instances in your Vultr account and note the target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli bare-metal list

  2. Monitor the instance's bandwidth usage statistics.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli bare-metal bandwidth <instance-id>