Overview of OVHcloud Monitoring on Dedicated Servers

In this article, we will be discussing OVHcloud Monitoring, which allows you to monitor the status of your machine from the OVHcloud Control Panel. It also automatically triggers an intervention at the Data Center when the server becomes unresponsive to ICMP (ping) requests. Additionally, OVHcloud will notify a customer via email when we detect a potential issue with their server. All OVHcloud Dedicated Servers and networks are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week by the OVHcloud technical teams.

Topics

• Monitoring IP Addresses
• Enable/Disable Monitoring
• Enable Monitoring of Specific Services

Monitoring IP Addresses

In order to implement a restrictive firewall without losing the benefit of Monitoring, it is necessary to whitelist the following IPs:

Communication between the Real-Time Monitoring service and your server also requires that you allow inbound and outbound connections on UDP ports 6100 through 6200.

Enable/Disable Monitoring

First, log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel. Click Bare Metal Cloud at the top of the page. On the left-hand tab, select the Dedicated Server in question from the Dedicated servers drop-down menu.

In the "Service status" box, click the Enable or Disable button next to "Monitoring". Click Confirm on the popup window to confirm the changes.

Enable Monitoring of Specific Services

In addition to the standard Monitoring, you can enable OVHcloud to monitor specific services such as HTTP, SSH, and other protocols in the OVHcloud Control Panel. To do this, navigate to the "Service status" box. Click on ... next to "Monitored services" and select Monitor my services from the drop-down menu. Then click the Monitor a service button on the following page:

Enter the IP address, protocol, port number, server response, and the time interval between checks on your service and press the check mark to confirm the changes.

Conclusion

OVHcloud Monitoring offers our customers a variety of ways in which OVHcloud can provide information about the status of your Dedicated Servers. We highly recommend that you take advantage of these free services.