Keep

Keep Alert Chaos in Check

Detect. Defend. Don't Drown.

Gerhard Lazu
Jan 26, 2025
1 min read
AlertsIncidentsAIOps

We talk with Matvey Kukuy and Tal Borenstein, co-founders of Keep, a startup focused on helping companies manage and make sense of their alert systems. The discussion comes three years after Matvey's previous appearance - https://shipit.show/36 - where he talked about Grafana Labs' acquisition of his previous startup Amixr (now Grafana OnCall).

Keep tackles a significant challenge in modern tech infrastructure: managing the overwhelming volume of alerts that companies receive from their various monitoring systems. Some enterprises deal with up to 70,000 alerts daily, making it crucial to identify which ones represent actual incidents requiring attention.

We explore real-world examples of major incidents, including the significant CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 that caused widespread system crashes and resulted in an estimated $10 billion in worldwide damages. This incident highlighted how critical it is to quickly identify and respond to serious issues among numerous alerts. Matvey tells us about his most black swan experience.

After the conversation, Matvey shows us how to:
1. Set up Keep with a MySQL database using Docker
2. Create a workflow that:
- Receives alerts
- Queries a MySQL database
- Sends webhooks based on query results

Tal sprinkles a high level perspective, and helps fix a misconfiguration.

Key features highlighted:
- Workflows can be defined in YAML (similar to GitHub Actions syntax)
- Supports multiple trigger types: alerts, incidents, manual triggers, and intervals
- Includes deduplication and correlation of alerts
- Integrates with external systems via "providers" (MySQL, HTTP webhooks, etc.)

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