Infrastructure

Monitor DigitalOcean with MrCron

MrCron mirrors DigitalOcean droplet status, snapshot age, and monthly cost every 5 minutes so you can spot broken droplets and stale snapshots across the fleet at a glance.

How MrCron monitors DigitalOcean

  • Droplet status per account (active, off, archive).
  • Snapshot age warning when the newest snapshot is older than your target.
  • Monthly cost roll-up across all droplets on the account.
  • Workspace-wide roll-up: connect one PAT, auto-link every droplet.
  • Per-project override: attach a specific droplet to a specific MrCron project.
  • Alert rules that fire on droplet state changes via any notification channel.

What you will see

Droplet status, snapshot age, monthly cost roll-up.

Auth flow: API Key. Credentials are stored encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and never returned to your browser.

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Sign in, create a project, and connect DigitalOcean in under a minute. First check ships in the free tier.

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Frequently asked questions

What DigitalOcean credentials does MrCron need?
A personal access token with read scope. MrCron stores it encrypted at rest and only decrypts it inside the sync worker.
How does auto-linking work?
After you connect a DO account at /integrations/digitalocean, MrCron lists every droplet on the account. You choose auto-link, manual link, or ignore per droplet.
Does MrCron read droplet contents?
No. MrCron only reads droplet metadata (status, region, size, snapshot list). Filesystem and workload data are never touched.
How is monthly cost calculated?
MrCron sums the published per-hour rate for each droplet size on the account, multiplied by 730 hours. Reserved capacity, floating IPs, and volumes are excluded.
Want the full concept-level detail? See MrCron docs for how projects, checks, and sync cadence work.