Keep – Open-source alerting CLI
Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. We're thrilled to announce that we're open-sourcing our alerting CLI tool, Keep (https://github.com/keephq/keep). Designed by developers for developers, Keep streamlines and simplifies alerting, making it a first-class citizen within the development process. Think of Keep as Prometheus Alertmanager but for all observability tools, with a simple and intuitive (GitHub actions-like) syntax. We believe that alerting has historically been neglected in existing monitoring platforms, leading to subpar alerting practices. With Keep,…
Keep – Open-source alerting CLI launched on February 15, 2023 with 65 votes, #1,015 of 3,829 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Keep is an open-source command-line tool for managing alerts across multiple observability platforms. Built for developers, it uses a GitHub Actions-like syntax to define alerts declaratively, allowing configurations to be versioned in code repositories. The tool functions as a unified alerting layer similar to Prometheus Alertmanager but supports various observability sources, addressing what its creators identify as historically neglected alerting practices in existing monitoring platforms.
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The open-source AIOps and alert management platform - keephq/keep
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. We're thrilled to announce that we're open-sourcing our alerting CLI tool, Keep (https://github.com/keephq/keep). Designed by developers for developers, Keep streamlines and simplifies alerting, making it a first-class citizen within the development…
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