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OVHcloud

OVHcloud monitoring: all your OVHcloud servers in one dashboard

The OVHcloud control panel shows each VPS’s configuration and backups. Opyntel’s OVHcloud monitoring shows memory, disk and containers for every server at a glance, plus the other systems you run.

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Built in vs Opyntel

OVHcloud on its own, and OVHcloud with Opyntel

Feature by feature, the biggest gaps first: what OVHcloud gives you, and what you get in one dashboard with Opyntel.

Every server at a glance

On OVHcloud

You open each VPS from Bare Metal Cloud, Virtual private servers. Its dashboard shows the model, vCores, memory and storage, with snapshots and automated backups.

With Opyntel

Opyntel lists every OVHcloud server in one table with state, memory, disk and load, down and degraded first, so you see it all at a glance. OVHcloud sits next to the other systems you run, in one dashboard.

Memory and disk in use

On OVHcloud

The VPS dashboard shows how much memory and storage the server has. The control panel guide covers no usage graphs.

With Opyntel

The Opyntel agent reports memory, disk fill level, load and per-container CPU, memory and restarts from inside the server, with one docker run command and outbound HTTPS only.

Alerts when it goes down, and when it recovers

On OVHcloud

For dedicated servers, OVHcloud monitoring pings each server and emails you when it stops responding, optionally with a technician checking it.

With Opyntel

Opyntel alerts on every server when it goes down, memory passes your threshold, a disk passes 85% or 95% or is on track to fill, or a container goes down. Each alert notifies when it fires and again when it recovers, by email, Slack or SMS depending on your plan.

The total cost of your app

On OVHcloud

Bills are listed by order on the My bills page, and renewals per service under My offers and services, where services renew automatically by default.

With Opyntel

Opyntel shows a list-price cost estimate per server on Pro and adds it to the other platforms you run, so you see the total cost of your app at a glance. Monthly budget alerts and forecasts come with Enterprise.

Setup

How to set up OVHcloud monitoring with Opyntel

OVHcloud monitoring in four steps: from OVHcloud to one dashboard with everything else you run.

  1. Create OVHcloud API keys with GET rights only
    On the OVHcloud token creation page for your region, name the application and grant GET rights only, such as GET /vps/*. You get an application key, an application secret and a consumer key.
    Create OVHcloud API keys
  2. Sign in to Opyntel
    Open your Opyntel dashboard and add a source. Accounts start from the waitlist, so join it to get yours.
  3. Paste the keys and start the agent
    Paste the three keys. For memory, disk fill level and per-container CPU and memory, run the docker run command your dashboard shows on each of your servers: the agent sends over outbound HTTPS only and opens no port.
  4. See OVHcloud in one dashboard
    OVHcloud monitoring lands next to the other platforms you run: every service and server sits in one dashboard, down and degraded first, with default alert rules on from the start.

Don’t see your platform? From your Opyntel account you can request an integration with more platforms. Until then, and tell us which one you run on.

FAQ

OVHcloud questions, answered

Short answers; some link to a guide that goes into detail.

The control panel shows the storage size, not how much is used. Opyntel’s agent alerts before it fills. Find what filled a Linux disk.

free -h on the VPS shows it now; the available column is the one that matters. Opyntel’s agent alerts when memory passes your threshold. Check memory usage on Linux.

Check the load average against the core count, and I/O wait in top. Opyntel shows load, CPU and memory per VPS. Read the Linux load average.

Check OVHcloud’s status page for your datacentre first. If every server there fails together it is the platform; if one fails alone it is that server. Opyntel checks your public endpoints from several regions and alerts when one goes down.

Use Reboot on the VPS page of the Control Panel, or sudo reboot on the server. Opyntel is read-only and never restarts anything, but it shows when a VPS came back.

The alerts your platform doesn’t send.

One dashboard for everything you run, with the alerts your platforms leave out. Read-only, nothing to install in your apps.

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