HolmesGPT
HolmesGPT is an open-source agent that investigates production incidents and finds root causes for operations teams.
What it is good for
- Finding the root cause of production incidents
- Investigating alerts from monitoring and paging tools
- Running background health checks on running services
- Querying logs and metrics across cloud and database systems
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Requires programming
Level 5 of 5. You need to write code to use it.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Agent app
- Tasks
- Works with
- Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Slack, PagerDuty
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 3,751
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is HolmesGPT free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (Apache-2.0 license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use HolmesGPT?
- Yes. You need to write code to use it.
- What does HolmesGPT work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Slack, and PagerDuty.
- What is HolmesGPT good for?
- Finding the root cause of production incidents, investigating alerts from monitoring and paging tools, running background health checks on running services, and querying logs and metrics across cloud and database systems.
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