Sometimes, it’s easier to understand a tool’s capabilities by comparing it to other tools in the same ecosystem. In this section, we’ll discuss how Keep interacts with and compares to other tools in the ecosystem.

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Keep vs Alerta

alerta monitoring system is a tool used to consolidate and de-duplicate alerts from multiple sources for quick ‘at-a-glance’ visualisation. With just one system you can monitor alerts from many other monitoring tools on a single screen (alerta docs).

KeepAlternative
Aggregation and correlation✅✅
Integrations✅ (both manually and automatically with Webhooks Integration)✅ (manually)
Alerts enrichment✅❌
Open source✅✅
Workflow automation✅❌
Managed version✅❌
CI/CD integration🚧❌
Noise reduction🚧❌

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Keep vs Grafana

Using Grafana Alerting, you create queries and expressions from multiple data sources — no matter where your data is stored — giving you the flexibility to combine your data and alert on your metrics and logs in new and unique ways. You can then create, manage, and take action on your alerts from a single, consolidated view, and improve your team’s ability to identify and resolve issues quickly. (grafana docs).

KeepAlternative
Aggregation and correlation of alerts✅❌
Integrations✅ (both manually and automatically with Webhooks Integration)✅ (manually)
Alerts enrichment✅❌
Open source✅✅
Workflow automation✅❌
Managed version✅✅
CI/CD integration🚧⚠️ has terraform integration
Noise reduction🚧❌

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Keep vs observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc)

Most existing observability tools, such as Datadog and New Relic, have implemented alerting mechanisms. However, they generally have two main limitations:

  • They are data centric - which means your data needs to be in the tool in order to be able to alert on it.
  • In many observability tools, alerting features are often not as robust or flexible as other functionalities. While setting up basic alerts is usually straightforward, these tools often fall short when it comes to build a mature alerting culture.

If you are not suffering from the problems above or the problems Keep solves and satisfied with your alerting, you probably don’t need Keep

Keep mitigates these concerns by being agnostic to where the data is, so you can alert on whatever you want, and treats alerts as first-class citizen which let you create a great alerting culture.

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Keep vs incident management tools (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, etc)

Most incident management tools offer features like alert aggregation and workflow automation. However, their core value is the incident management itself, which Keep aims to prevent. Keep focuses only on the alert lifecycle.

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