# vmware-archive/kubewatch

Watch k8s events and trigger Handlers

Repository: https://github.com/vmware-archive/kubewatch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kubewatch
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: golang, kubernetes, slack
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-09-17T08:58:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3704, "days_push": 1446, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2423, forks 433 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:50.683311+00:00)

## What it is
Kubewatch is a Kubernetes watcher that monitors cluster resource changes and publishes notifications to collaboration channels like Slack, Hipchat, Mattermost, Flock, generic webhooks, and SMTP. It is deployed in-cluster (e.g., via Helm) and is written in Go.

## Use cases
- get slack notifications when pods change in my kubernetes cluster
- alert my team when deployments or services are modified in k8s
- watch kubernetes resource events and send them to a webhook
- notify on configmap and secret changes in the cluster
- run a lightweight k8s event notifier via helm

## When to choose
- you need simple push notifications from Kubernetes events to Slack or webhooks
- you want a lightweight, Helm-installable cluster watcher
- you are okay using the community fork (robusta-dev/kubewatch) for ongoing maintenance

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - the VMware original is archived and unmaintained
- you need advanced alerting, filtering, or metrics - use tools like Prometheus Alertmanager or Robusta instead
- you need notification channels beyond the supported Slack/Hipchat/Mattermost/Flock/webhook/SMTP set

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring, alerting, webhook, cli
- domain: monitoring
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: kubernetes-watcher, slack-notifications, event-notifications, helm, archived, kubernetes, devops, containers, docker

## Member repositories
- vmware-archive/kubewatch (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:50.683311+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:33:00.790863+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vmware-archive/kubewatch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:50.683311+00:00, sha 15244a387393)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.