Keep — Open-Source AIOps Alert Management Platform

Introduction

Keep is an open-source AIOps platform that centralizes alerts from dozens of monitoring tools into a single pane of glass. It reduces alert fatigue through noise reduction and intelligent correlation, letting SRE and DevOps teams focus on real incidents instead of drowning in notifications.

What Keep Does

• Ingests alerts from 50+ providers including Datadog, Grafana, PagerDuty, Prometheus, and CloudWatch
• Correlates related alerts into deduplicated incidents automatically
• Provides a workflow engine to automate enrichment, routing, and remediation
• Offers a unified timeline view across all monitoring sources
• Supports bidirectional sync so actions in Keep reflect in source tools

Architecture Overview

Keep runs as a Python-based API server backed by a database (SQLite for dev, PostgreSQL for production). It connects to monitoring providers through a plugin system of 'providers' that handle both ingest (webhooks, polling) and actions (acknowledge, resolve). A built-in workflow engine evaluates rules against incoming alerts and triggers automated responses. The frontend is a Next.js application.

Self-Hosting & Configuration

• Deploy with Docker Compose or Helm chart on Kubernetes
• Configure providers via the web UI or YAML-based configuration files
• Set up webhook endpoints for push-based alert ingestion
• Use environment variables for database connection, auth settings, and secret keys
• Supports SSO via OIDC and SAML for enterprise authentication

Key Features

• Alert deduplication and noise reduction cuts alert volume significantly
• Workflow automation with a visual builder for enrichment and routing rules
• Topology-aware correlation groups related alerts into incidents
• Multi-tenant architecture supports team-based access control
• Built-in AI capabilities for root cause suggestion and alert summarization

Comparison with Similar Tools

• PagerDuty — commercial incident management; Keep is open-source and focuses on alert aggregation
• Grafana OnCall — strong Grafana integration but narrower provider support
• Opsgenie — Atlassian's alerting tool; Keep offers broader third-party ingestion
• BigPanda — enterprise AIOps with heavy ML; Keep is lighter and self-hostable
• ilert — commercial alerting platform; Keep provides similar features without vendor lock-in

FAQ

Q: Does Keep replace my existing monitoring tools? A: No. Keep sits on top of your monitoring stack. It aggregates and correlates alerts from your existing tools rather than generating its own.

Q: What databases does Keep support? A: SQLite for development and PostgreSQL for production deployments.

Q: Can I write custom integrations? A: Yes. Keep's provider system is extensible. You can add new providers by implementing the provider interface in Python.

Q: Is there a hosted version? A: The Keep team offers a managed cloud version, but the platform is fully self-hostable under the MIT license.

Sources

• https://github.com/keephq/keep
• https://docs.keephq.dev