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Scaleway

Scaleway monitoring: all your Scaleway Instances in one dashboard

Scaleway Cockpit gives Grafana dashboards and fixed-threshold alerts for Scaleway alone. Opyntel’s Scaleway monitoring shows your Instances at a glance, plus the other systems you run, with rules you tune.

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Built in vs Opyntel

Scaleway on its own, and Scaleway with Opyntel

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

Scaleway plus the other systems you run

On Scaleway

Cockpit gives managed Grafana dashboards for Scaleway products, and it can take metrics you push yourself. Data you push is billed, even when it comes from Scaleway products.

With Opyntel

Opyntel lists every Scaleway Instance next to the services and servers on your other platforms in one table, down and degraded first, so you see it all at a glance. There are no dashboards to build first.

Memory and disk

On Scaleway

Scaleway’s GPU Instance tutorial collects CPU, memory, disk and network metrics with node_exporter in Grafana Alloy, an agent you install and configure, and pushes them to Cockpit with a token.

With Opyntel

The Opyntel agent reports memory, disk fill level, load and per-container CPU, memory and restarts with one docker run command and no configuration file, using outbound HTTPS only.

Alerts when it goes down, and when it recovers

On Scaleway

Preconfigured alerts use thresholds and durations that cannot be modified, and need the alert manager turned on. Contacts can be email, Slack, on-call systems or SMS.

With Opyntel

Opyntel’s default rules cover a server going down, CPU and memory passing your threshold, disk at 85% and 95%, a disk on track to fill and a container going down; on Pro you set any threshold per server, project or environment. Each alert notifies when it fires and again when it recovers, by email, Slack or SMS depending on your plan.

History

On Scaleway

Cockpit keeps metrics for 31 days by default, and up to 5 years if you raise the retention.

With Opyntel

Opyntel keeps memory, disk and load history for 30 days on the free plan, a year on Pro and unlimited on Enterprise, for Scaleway and your other platforms alike.

The total cost of your app

On Scaleway

Billing alerts notify you by SMS, email or webhook when spending reaches a percentage of a monthly budget you set in euros.

With Opyntel

Opyntel shows a list-price cost estimate per Instance 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 across every platform come with Enterprise.

Setup

How to set up Scaleway monitoring with Opyntel

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

  1. Create a read-only Scaleway API key
    In the Scaleway console, under IAM, create an application with a read-only policy such as InstancesReadOnly, then generate an API key for that application on the API keys tab.
    Create a Scaleway API key
  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 key and start the agent
    Paste the secret key. For memory, disk fill level and per-container CPU and memory, run the docker run command your dashboard shows on each of your Instances: the agent sends over outbound HTTPS only and opens no port.
  4. See Scaleway in one dashboard
    Scaleway 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

Scaleway questions, answered

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

Start with df -h and du on the Instance, then clean up Docker, logs and the journal. Linux disk full, step by step.

free -h on the Instance shows it now. Opyntel’s agent alerts when memory passes your threshold. Check memory usage on Linux.

Check the load average against the core count, and the steal time on shared-CPU Instance types. Opyntel shows load and CPU per Instance. Read the Linux load average.

Check status.scaleway.com first. If every Instance in a zone fails together it is the platform; if one fails alone it is that Instance. Opyntel checks your public endpoints from several regions and alerts when one goes down.

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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