What is Robusta?

Profile

Robusta empowers developers to resolve Kubernetes issues and Prometheus alerts independently, reducing the support burden on Platform Engineering teams by up to 80%. 

By transforming Prometheus alerts into actionable insights and automating root cause analysis, it accelerates incident resolution, boosts engineer productivity, and ensures business continuity. Leveraging real-time Kubernetes and observability data, Robusta delivers the insights and automation needed to eliminate downtime, simplify troubleshooting, and focus on innovation. 

Running and troubleshooting cloud-native applications demands mastery of diverse technologies. Identifying root causes in distributed environments can be tedious and manual, especially with Kubernetes producing overwhelming data. Platform engineers often juggle multiple tools to sift through this information and resolve complex problems.

Limited expertise in Kubernetes or observability tools can amplify challenges, creating productivity bottlenecks and slowing deployments.

Robusta simplifies this with its powerful AI powered technology that helps automating tasks, enriching alerts with context, and offering actionable insights. This empowers teams to resolve issues efficiently, boosting autonomy, speeding up delivery, and enhancing developer satisfaction.

Focus

With Robusta, you can dive deep into Prometheus alerts and gain instant insights and leverage AI to further investigate. You can ask HolmesGPT by Robusta, follow-up questions like, "What's the impact?" or "How do I fix this?" - get answers, and accelerate incident resolution.

Robusta's users include platform engineers, DevOps teams, SREs (Site Reliability Engineers), and developers working in Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.

They leverage Robusta's platform for:

• Efficient troubleshooting: Swiftly resolving Kubernetes issues and Prometheus alerts by automating alert analysis and root cause investigation.
• Reducing MTTR: Faster incident resolution with actionable insights and guided solutions.
• Developer autonomy: Empowering teams to resolve issues independently, reducing reliance on senior engineers and cutting support tickets.
• Enhanced productivity: Streamlining workflows to prioritize innovation over firefighting.

Background

Robusta.dev, a startup, created HolmesGPT. Today, all sizes of companies use it to troubleshoot Kubernetes and Prometheus alerts and automate the investigation process – basically everything that happens post-deployment. Its user-base ranges from small startups that use managed clouds to large enterprises running OpenShift in-house.

Robusta main features

HolmesGPT On-Call Assistant

AI-powered chat assistant, designed to be your personal assistant in resolving and troubleshooting issues. Instead of digging into data manually - ask HolmsGPT questions directly to the chat box, and get instant, accurate answers based on your specific environment.

Unlike generic AI models, HolmesGPT provides answers based on real-time insights from your Kubernetes infrastructure; you can even revisit resolved alerts to explore their cause and understand how the issue was fixed, ensuring continuous learning and improvement for future incidents.

HolmesGPT is deeply integrated with your environment, meaning it understands your unique setup and pulls from your data to provide precise, relevant answers. It’s like having an expert engineer at your side, ready to help at any moment. 

Interactive Timeline

See the chain of events that lead to an incident. Robusta’s powerful, interactive timeline provides a clear, chronological view of your environment's activity, allowing engineers to visualize, explore, and easily correlate events, changes, and issues for seamless Kubernetes and OpenShift troubleshooting.

With Robusta’s Timeline, you can see every alert and issue that’s occurred, pinpoint exactly when a problem started, and correlate it with any code changes made just before. This powerful visualization allows you to drill down into the details, with events neatly summarized for quick understanding. With just a few clicks, your teams can explore the root cause of issues, trace the sequence of events, and navigate through layers of data - all in one place.

Alert Trends

In the changing world of Kubernetes environments, where hundreds or even thousands of issues can flood your platform engineer’s Slack channels, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by noise. Robusta’s Trends ensures you see everything without missing anything critical. By organizing and summarizing all your data in a clear, visual format, Trends cuts through the clutter, allowing you to focus on what truly matters. 

Guided Resolution for Prometheus Alerts

Robusta offers guided resolution to issues and incidents. The AI assistant analyzes patterns and anomalies in your environment and provides engineers with step-by-step guidance for resolving the specific issue at hand. 

Robusta seamlessly integrates with popular observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and others used in your cloud environment. It acts as a central hub, pulling data from all these sources, including metrics, logs, traces, and events to deliver an automated, guided process towards resolution. 

Free Up Critical Time

Robusta drives knowledge sharing across teams leveraging best practices and troubleshooting insights. This allows for quicker issue resolution, reduces the workload on senior engineers, and frees up their time to focus on high-impact projects.