CLI and operator that scans Kubernetes clusters for problems and explains them in plain language using an LLM backend of your choice. CNCF sandbox project.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (Apache-2.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2023
- Status
- Active
- Website
- k8sgpt.ai
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Incident management checklist
0 of 10 confirmed in K8sGPT'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 Not confirmed
- Status page updates No
- Postmortems No
- Follow-up actions No
- Paging No
Cluster scanner/explainer with no incident record, roles, channels, status page or paging. Operator runs scans and posts results to Slack/Mattermost sinks.
Checked against: github.com, github.com (2), k8sgpt.ai
Kubernetes and container monitoring checklist
4 of 10 confirmed in K8sGPT's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Kubernetes.
- Cluster, node and pod metrics No
- Kubernetes events Yes
- Pod logs Yes
- Cluster view No
- Requests and limits advice Not confirmed
- Change timeline Not confirmed
- Network visibility No
- Alerting Yes
- Multi-cluster Not confirmed
- Runs in your cluster Yes
Scanner/explainer, not a monitoring UI: analyzers read events and container logs (logAnalyzer); operator sends findings to Slack/Mattermost sinks.
Checked against: github.com, github.com (2), k8sgpt.ai
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