abahmed/kwatch

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1016 stars · 82 forks observed · 2026-09-01

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

kwatch is a lightweight, stateless Kubernetes monitoring tool that watches pods, nodes, PVCs, jobs, HPAs, and rollouts and sends self-explaining crash alerts (with root cause, logs, and events) to team chat channels. It is deployed as a single small pod via Helm or kubectl and supports 56 notification providers including Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, and email.

Use cases

• get notified when pods crash in my kubernetes cluster
• alert on OOMKilled and CrashLoopBackOff with logs
• send kubernetes crash alerts to slack or discord
• monitor stuck deployments and failed jobs in k8s
• lightweight kubernetes alerting without prometheus
• watch pvc disk usage and node health in kubernetes
• route kubernetes alerts by namespace and severity

When to choose

• you want fast, simple kubernetes crash alerting without running Prometheus or Grafana
• you need alerts that include root cause, recent logs, and events in team chat
• you want a stateless single-pod deployment with minimal configuration
• you need alert routing, retries, and fallback across many notification providers

When to avoid

• you need metrics collection, dashboards, or long-term log storage
• you already run a full Prometheus/Alertmanager stack with custom PromQL rules
• you need per-pod agents or deep application-level observability

Facets

service · maturity active

monitoring alerting logging monitoring self-hosted go cli kubernetes crash-detection crash-reporting event-notifier slack discord helm-chart pod-monitoring alert-routing devops containers docker

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