Platform Engineering Playbook Podcast

HolmesGPT: AI Root Cause Analysis for Kubernetes

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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

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