HolmesGPT: AI Root Cause Analysis for Kubernetes

Deep dive into HolmesGPT, the CNCF Sandbox AI agent that revolutionizes cloud-native troubleshooting. This episode covers what it is, its 40+ integrations, the project roadmap, and how to set it up today.

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Main Topic - HolmesGPT:

• CNCF Sandbox project (accepted October 2025) with 1,600+ GitHub stars
• Agentic architecture: creates investigation task lists, queries systems, synthesizes findings
• 40+ built-in toolsets: Prometheus, Grafana Loki/Tempo, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, DataDog, and more
• Privacy-first: bring your own LLM keys, read-only access, respects RBAC
• End-to-end automation with AlertManager, PagerDuty, OpsGenie integration
• Installation options: pip, Homebrew, Helm, Web UI, K9s plugin

Resources:

• HolmesGPT GitHub
• HolmesGPT Documentation
• Full Transcript

Episode Type: full Episode Number: 83 Season: 1 Tags: HolmesGPT, CNCF, Kubernetes, root cause analysis, AI ops, troubleshooting, observability, SRE, platform engineering, Robusta, agentic AI