Show HN: Keep – Create production alerts from plain English

[talboren]

https://github.com/keephq/keep

Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep Here.

We were tired of creating alerts for our applications, so we've built an open-source GitHub Bot that lets you write application alerts using plain English. The code is open-sourced: https://github.com/keephq/keep so you can review it yourself.

Every developer and DevOps professional is familiar with the fact that in order to ensure your application works in production, you need to access your observability tool's user interface (such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.) and carefully determine how to create alerts that effectively monitor your application.

Instead, by installing Keep, every time you open a PR, the bot combines the alert description (alerts under the .keep directory) with the tool context (mostly the configuration of the alerts you already have) to generate (GPT) new alerts that keep you monitored.

So, for example, if you create a .keep/db-timeout.yaml and open a PR, the bot will comment on the PR with the actual alert you can deploy to your tool.

# The alert text in plain English alert: | Alert when the connections to the database are slower than 5 seconds for more than 5 minutes provider: grafana

You can Install the bot and connect your providers via https://platform.keephq.dev (after login, you'll start the installation flow) or just clone the repository and use docker-compose to start the web app and the installation flow.

Demo Video - https://www.loom.com/share/23541a03944c4dca99b0504a1753d1b4

[sixhobbits]

The github makes it very hard to understand what this thing actually does. The example you provided helps a bit but not a lot.

All the comments follow a similar pattern (eg mentioning impressed) and have very low karma and two were created today, so I assume you're using manipulation to get this on the front page.

[shahargl → sixhobbits]

Would be happy to answer any question you have. We know our messaging is far from perfect but we are trying. I posted this “show hn” on my LinkedIn so I feel its legit ^^

[talboren]

A more detailed documentation can be found here https://www.keephq.wiki/applications/github :)

[jmartens]

I don't see the need for this. I mean, its a fun idea for LLMs/Generative text, but does the target user struggle with figuring out how to configure an alert in their o11y tools?

[dattanin]

Impressive work! I am in the process of implementing some alerts and will try to use keep as a part of our workflow.

[shahargl → dattanin]

Amazing! Would be cool to chat and understand how we can help

[barakalkalay]

Impressive work, Shahar and Tal! Keep simplifies the process of creating application alerts by enabling developers to write them in plain text, saving time and improving efficiency. The integration with existing observability tools and the open-source nature of the project make it even more appealing.

[talhof8]

Congrats on the launch guys! Love that it's open source. Going to give it a try and keep you posted

[IdoLateralus]

Looks like a promising tool. As an infrastructure engineer myself, alerting is a major pain in the ass that always results in silencing notifications due to excessive noise. I think you're headed in the right direction and I wish you guys all the best.

[nadavwiz]

Love it! What about a zapier integration?

[shahargl → nadavwiz]

wdym? how will it look like?

[nadavwiz → shahargl]

Either alerts (can be very noisy) or some heuristic (daily summaries as a simplistic example) triggering zapiers for any flow I’d like to hook it to (email, comm apps you don’t yet offer integrations with, etc)

[omriros]

I am genuinely impressed by this GitHub Bot and its game-changing capabilities. The ability to create application alerts using plain English descriptions is a remarkable feature that will greatly simplify the monitoring process for developers and DevOps professionals. This innovative solution has the potential to significantly enhance productivity and streamline workflows in an impressive way. Thank you guys!