Cockpit
See everything. Miss nothing.
When your systems go dark, your business does too
Behind every digital product is a complex system of infrastructure, services, and dependencies. Every millisecond of delay, every unnoticed error, and every outage has a measurable impact—from lost revenue to broken customer trust. But maintaining visibility across systems is far from easy.
You can't fix what you can't see
The absence of a monitoring solution makes incident resolution painfully slow. When every minute counts, this lag time adds up: delaying response time, digging for insights, frustrating users, and stretching engineering teams.
Signal is buried under noise
Outages rarely come without warning, but spotting the signs takes a real-time, unified view. Without it, small issues snowball into major disruptions that could have been avoided entirely, breaking SLAs and shaking trust.
Complexity that drains time and budget
Overly complex platforms eat up time, budget, and focus. Setup is slow, pricing is unpredictable, and vendor lock-in limits your flexibility. You end up spending more to get less.
Get instant and unified visibility into your system health
Cockpit is your all-in-one, fully managed observability into your system's health and performance – backed by trusted open source technologies. Get a centralized and natively integrated view of your infrastructure to anticipate incidents and accelerate resolution, ultimately saving your teams time and your organization money.
Accelerate
Resolve issues quicker to reduce downtime and minimize the impact on your customers.
Anticipate
Detect issues before they occur to reduce outage frequency and improve the reliability of your products and services.
Save
Slash costs and losses linked to downtime and outages and keep your engineering teams focused on critical work.
Built for the people who keep the systems running
Cockpit is designed for teams who live in the details—those responsible for keeping services available, efficient, and improving. Whether you're writing code, operating infrastructure, or analyzing outcomes, Cockpit gives you the visibility and control you need to do your job better.
Focus on the stability and performance of your architecture, supervise load testing, and monitor availability when demand spikes. Get better visibility on your network and infrastructure for increased security, and optimize resource utilization to ensure seamless service delivery.
Catch regressions early, debug, and optimize code to improve product reliability. Streamline troubleshooting and resolution efficiency, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR), and ensuring faster time-to-market for new features and updates.
Focus on incident management and reliability to mitigate downtime and reduce SLA breaches. Proactively identify potential issues, analyze root causes, and implement data-driven improvements to increase system uptime, reduce errors, and maintain high-quality user experiences.
Key features and capabilities
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Powered by open source
Built on Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo, and compatible with OpenTelemetry – ensuring interoperability, transparency, and no vendor lock-in.
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Multi-cloud by design
Collect and correlate telemetry data from Scaleway products and external platforms for a complete view of your infrastructure.
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Real-time monitoring and alerting
Detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster with instant, customizable alerts and granular insights into logs and metrics.
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Custom and pre-built dashboards
Start monitoring instantly with ready-to-use, Grafana-based dashboards.
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Powerful data visualization
Explore past and current data to get a deep understanding of your systems' performance and health.
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Cost-effective and scalable
Avoid third-party fees and manage your observability natively within Scaleway, optimized for performance and efficiency.
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Native integration
Cockpit is automatically live and monitoring your Scaleway resources from the moment your project begins, at no extra cost.
Choose the cloud that makes sense
Customer data sovereignty
Dependency is the enemy of resilience: customers want their data hosted by a regional provider. Gain sovereignty with our multi-cloud tools & infrastructure.
Sustainable data centers
We recycle our hardware, only use renewable energy, and pay close attention to our water usage. Additionally, our Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is available online 24/7 for you to see for yourself.
Low latency
Every complete cloud ecosystem needs 100% reliability, which is why we provide nine Availability Zones in three different regions.
Other products you may need
PostgreSQL and MySQL Databases
New generation of relational databases
Track your database performance (memory, CPU usage...) and get instant notifications when usage soars with our preconfigured alerts.
Serverless
Advanced technologies without the complexity of server management
Automate your workflows by triggering Serverless Jobs when a Cockpit alert fires.
Scaleway Kubernetes
Support your development teams to move faster
Get deep visibility into your cluster's health and monitor resources' usage with preconfigured dashboards.
Frequently asked questions
What is observability?
Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of a system by analyzing telemetry data it generates—like logs, metrics, and traces. It goes beyond basic monitoring to help you detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster, even in complex, distributed environments.
What is Cockpit?
Scaleway Cockpit is a fully managed observability solution that provides monitoring and alerting for your infrastructure and applications. It collects, stores, and analyzes logs and metrics, helping you detect and resolve issues faster—without the complexity of third-party integrations.
What is the difference between Cockpit and Audit Trail?
Cockpit monitors all logs, metrics, and traces—from Scaleway and external sources—to track infrastructure health and performance. Audit Trail focuses on logging the actions performed on any resources, helping you review access and user actions for security and compliance.
Do I need to configure anything to start using Cockpit?
No. Cockpit is activated by default on all Scaleway projects. Data is natively collected, and pre-configured dashboards and alerts are available out of the box for Scaleway-managed products, so you get instant observability without spending time on setup.
Can Cockpit monitor non-Scaleway infrastructure?
Yes. While Cockpit is deeply integrated with Scaleway services, it also supports observability for external sources. This makes it ideal for hybrid or multi-cloud environments where visibility across providers is critical.
How does Cockpit integrate with other Scaleway products?
Cockpit is activated by default and at no extra cost in all projects. Data is natively collected and shared in pre-built, ready-to-use dashboards, saving your teams from unnecessary configuration.
What technologies power Cockpit?
Cockpit is built on open-source observability tools, including Grafana for dashboards, Loki for log aggregation, Mimir for metrics storage, and Tempo for tracing. This open architecture ensures full transparency and avoids vendor lock-in.
How long is my data retained for?
By default, metrics are retained for 31 days; logs and traces for 7 days.
Data retention can be increased up to 5 years.
How am I billed for using Cockpit?
Cockpit collects and stores metrics and logs from Scaleway resources at no extra cost. You may also push additional data (custom data) coming from your applications running at Scaleway or elsewhere, which will be charged based on the volume ingested:
- Custom metrics are billed €0.15 per million samples ingested
- Custom logs and traces are billed €0.35 per GB ingested.
Retention of both Scaleway and custom data incurs charges only when exceeding default periods (see previous question). Learn more in our pricing page.