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HolmesGPT

Open-source SRE agent that investigates alerts and incidents across your observability stack

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What HolmesGPT does

  • Open-source SRE agent that investigates alerts and incidents across your observability stack
  • Connects to Prometheus, Kubernetes and logs via toolsets
  • CNCF Sandbox project; bring your own LLM

HolmesGPT — straight answers

What is HolmesGPT?

HolmesGPT is listed under AI DevOps & SRE, in the Code & Development category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source SRE agent that investigates alerts and incidents across your observability stack. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at holmesgpt.dev.

Is HolmesGPT free?

HolmesGPT is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can HolmesGPT do?

HolmesGPT does 3 things the catalog singles out: Open-source sre agent that investigates alerts and incidents across your observability stack; connects to prometheus, kubernetes and logs via toolsets; cncf sandbox project; bring your own llm.

What is the best free alternative to HolmesGPT?

K8sGPT is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI DevOps & SRE sub-category and is free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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