Wachd
Wachd receives monitoring alerts, gathers nearby operational context, and sends an AI-generated root cause diagnosis to the on-call engineer.
What Wachd is
Wachd receives monitoring alerts, gathers nearby operational context, and sends an AI-generated root cause diagnosis to the on-call engineer. For an alert, it can collect the last 10 GitHub commits, 30 minutes of Loki or Datadog error logs, and metric history around the alert window. AI options include in-cluster Ollama or vLLM, OpenAI-compatible models, Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini. On-call schedules can include primary, secondary, and custom rotations, time-window restrictions, and self-service overrides. Notifications can go by SMS, voice call, email, or Slack, with escalation for alerts that are not acknowledged and cancellation when resolved. Wachd says it runs in the customer’s Kubernetes cluster and can keep incident data within the customer’s VPC, including in air-gapped deployments using an in-cluster model. It says it removes emails, IP addresses, API keys, and account IDs before data reaches an AI backend. The self-hosted, Apache 2.0-licensed product is free, with no paid tier or license fees.
Good
- Free and open source under Apache 2.0.
- Supports primary, secondary, and custom rotations.
- Notifications include SMS, voice, email, and Slack.
- Can run in a customer Kubernetes cluster.
- Strips specified identifiers before data reaches an AI backend.
Watch out
- Requires a self-hosted deployment.
- The described deployment uses Kubernetes.
- The product is focused on DevOps and SRE teams.
Who it suits
Wachd is aimed at DevOps and SRE teams that need alert diagnosis, on-call scheduling, and multiple notification channels. It may suit teams that want a self-hosted deployment and a choice of AI backends.
Verdict
Wachd combines alert context gathering with AI diagnosis, scheduling, and escalation in a self-hosted package. Its free, open-source model may appeal to teams able to deploy it in Kubernetes.
Plans and prices
From Wachd's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free & open source | Free | Self-hosted · Unlimited teams and users · No license required · Apache 2.0 |
The facts
Each one read from Wachd's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access controls
- It lists Entra ID, Okta, and Google Workspace group mappings, with local accounts available as break-glass access.checked 8 Oct 2026
- AI backends
- It supports in-cluster Ollama, vLLM, or OpenAI-compatible models, as well as Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Context collection
- It collects the last 10 GitHub commits, 30 minutes of error logs from Loki or Datadog, and metric history around the alert window.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Data residency
- The site says Wachd runs in the customer's Kubernetes cluster and incident data can remain inside its VPC, including in air-gapped deployments using an in-cluster model.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The site describes a Helm chart for Kubernetes and says deployment takes under 30 minutes.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure access
- Wachd describes its access to GitHub, GitLab, logs, and metrics as read-only or query-only.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The site lists Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Loki, PagerDuty webhooks, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Twilio, and several AI inference backends.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Wachd says it is built for DevOps and SRE teams.checked 8 Oct 2026
- License and pricing
- Wachd states that it is free and open source, has no paid tier or license fees, and is licensed under Apache 2.0.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Notifications
- Notifications can use SMS, voice calls, email, and Slack, with escalation for unacknowledged alerts and cancellation when resolved.checked 8 Oct 2026
- On-call scheduling
- Schedules support primary, secondary, and custom rotation layers, time-window restrictions, and self-service overrides.checked 8 Oct 2026
- PII protection
- Wachd says it strips emails, IP addresses, API keys, and account IDs before data reaches the AI backend.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Wachd receives monitoring alerts, gathers related context, and sends an AI-generated root cause diagnosis to the on-call engineer.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The site directs questions to [email protected] or its Discord community.checked 8 Oct 2026
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