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How to Monitor a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

Updated on January 15, 2025

Monitoring an instance provides information about its performance and usage statistics. This enables you to track the instance's activity, health, and resource usage. You can monitor the vCPU usage, disk operations and bandwidth statistics on a Vultr Cloud Compute instance.

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

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI

  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.

  2. Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.

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

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

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

  6. Monitor the instance's performance statistics within the Server Monitors section.

  7. Click the Range drop-down to select a specific timeframe and view the monitoring information in the following categories:

    • vCPU Usage: Displays the vCPU usage statistics.
    • Disk Operations: Displays the read and write operations per second on the primary storage disk.
    • Network: Displays the instance's networking statistics in bytes.

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

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

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

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

  1. List all available instances and note your target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance list

  2. Monitor the instance's bandwidth usage statistics.

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