Respond to alerts faster, using AI to automatically:
- Fetch logs, traces, and metrics
- Determine if issues are application or infrastructure related
- Find upstream root-causes
Using HolmesGPT, you can transform your existing alerts from this π
To this π

HolmesGPT connects AI models with live observability data and organizational knowledge. It uses an agentic loop to analyze data from multiple sources and identify possible root causes.

The following data sources ("toolsets") are built-in. Add your own.
Data Source | Status | Description |
---|---|---|
Kubernetes | β | Pod logs, K8s events, and resource status (kubectl describe) |
Grafana | β | Logs (Loki) and traces (Tempo) |
Helm | β | Release status, chart metadata, and values |
ArgoCD | β | Application sync status |
AWS RDS | β | Logs and events |
Prometheus | β | Currently supports investigating alerts; coming soon: automatically write PromQL and show related graphs |
Internet | β | Public runbooks |
Confluence | β | Private runbooks and documentation |
OpenSearch | π‘ Beta | Query logs and investigate issues with OpenSearch itself (using self-health diagnostics) |
NewRelic | π‘ Beta | Investigate alerts, query tracing data |
Coralogix | π‘ Beta | Logs |
GitHub | π‘ Beta | Remediate alerts by opening pull requests with fixes |
How to configure datasources with Robusta SaaS (docs for CLI coming soon)
Request access to beta features
By design, HolmesGPT has read-only access and respects RBAC permissions. It is safe to run in production environments.
We do not train HolmesGPT on your data. Data sent to Robusta SaaS is private to your account.
For extra privacy, bring an API key for your own AI model.
Robusta can investigate alerts - or just answer questions - from the following sources:
Integration | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|
Slack | π‘ Beta | Demo. Tag HolmesGPT bot in any Slack message |
Prometheus/AlertManager | β | Robusta SaaS or HolmesGPT CLI |
PagerDuty | β | HolmesGPT CLI only |
OpsGenie | β | HolmesGPT CLI only |
Jira | β | HolmesGPT CLI only |
HolmesGPT can be used in three ways:
- Use Robusta SaaS (recommended) for the full HolmesGPT experience (Kubernetes required)
- Desktop CLI or K9s plugin - no Kubernetes required, supports one-off investigations
- Python library - for advanced use cases
- In the Robusta SaaS: Go to platform.robusta.dev and use Holmes from your browser
- With HolmesGPT CLI: setup an API key and ask Holmes a question π
holmes ask "what pods are unhealthy and why?"
Also supported:
HolmesGPT CLI: investigate Prometheus alerts
Optional: port-forward to AlertManager (if running Prometheus inside Kubernetes)
kubectl port-forward alertmanager-robusta-kube-prometheus-st-alertmanager-0 9093:9093 &
Pull alerts from AlertManager and investigate them with HolmesGPT:
holmes investigate alertmanager --alertmanager-url http://localhost:9093
# if on Mac OS and using the Holmes Docker imageπ
# holmes investigate alertmanager --alertmanager-url http://docker.for.mac.localhost:9093
To investigate alerts in your browser, sign up for a free trial of Robusta SaaS.
HolmesGPT CLI: investigate PagerDuty and OpsGenie alerts
holmes investigate opsgenie --opsgenie-api-key <OPSGENIE_API_KEY>
holmes investigate pagerduty --pagerduty-api-key <PAGERDUTY_API_KEY>
# to write the analysis back to the incident as a comment
holmes investigate pagerduty --pagerduty-api-key <PAGERDUTY_API_KEY> --update
For more details, run holmes investigate <source> --help
HolmesGPT can investigate many issues out of the box, with no customization or training. Optionally, you can extend Holmes to improve results:
Custom Data Sources: Add data sources (toolsets) to improve investigations
- If using Robusta SaaS: See Robusta's docs
- If using the CLI: Use
-t
flag with custom toolset files or add to~/.holmes/config.yaml
Custom Runbooks: Give HolmesGPT instructions for known alerts:
- If using Robusta SaaS: Use the Robusta UI to add runbooks
- If using the CLI: Use
-r
flag with custom runbook files
You can save settings in a config file to avoid passing them to the CLI each time:
Reading settings from a config file
You can customize HolmesGPT's behaviour with command line flags, or you can save common settings in config file for re-use.
You can view an example config file with all available settings here.
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.
If you have any questions, feel free to message us on robustacommunity.slack.com
Install HolmesGPT from source with Poetry. See Installation for details.
For help, contact us on Slack