Rulebooks that listen to events from monitoring tools, webhooks or Kafka and trigger Ansible playbooks, used for automatic remediation. Open source core, supported in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Open source
- Yes (Apache-2.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2022
- Status
- Active
- Website
- redhat.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Incident management checklist
1 of 10 confirmed in Event-Driven Ansible's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Incident management.
- Declare from chat No
- Incident channels No
- Incident roles No
- Severity levels No
- Timeline No
- Workflows Yes
- Status page updates No
- Postmortems No
- Follow-up actions No
- Paging No
Event-driven automation engine (rulebooks trigger playbooks), not an incident manager: no incident record, roles, channels, status page or paging of its own.
Checked against: redhat.com, github.com
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