HolmesGPT is an open-source AI troubleshooting agent built for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments. It combines observability telemetry, LLM reasoning, and structured runbooks to accelerate root cause analysis and suggest next actions. Unlike static dashboards or chatbots, HolmesGPT is agentic: it actively decides what data to fetch, runs targeted queries, and iteratively refines its hypotheses – all while staying within your environment.
HolmesGPT: Agentic troubleshooting built for the cloud native era… Example of a simple custom tool: holmes: toolsets: kubernetes/pod status: description: "Check the status of a Kubernetes pod." tools: - name: "get pod" description: "Fetch pod details from a namespace." command: "kubectl get pod {{ pod }} -n {{ namespace }}" Getting started Install Holmesgpt There … …
… Grafana dashboards showed blank panels for Cilium network metrics. Hubble was working fine — DNS visibility, TCP flows, and HTTP latency were all there in the Hubble UI. …