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How to Monitor a Vultr Cloud GPU Instance

Updated on 11 September, 2025

Learn how to monitor performance and usage statistics for your Vultr Cloud GPU instance to track activity and resource utilization.

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 Cloud GPU 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 Cloud GPU 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 your instance usage statistics.

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

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

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

    • vCPU Usage: Displays the server vCPU usage statistics.
    • Disk Operations: Displays the number of read and write operations on the server’s primary storage disk.
    • Network: Displays the instance’s public network interface traffic statistics in bytes.

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

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance list

  2. Monitor the instance's bandwidth usage statistics.

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

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