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Developers in need of a messaging bot solution for monitoring and debugging Kubernetes clusters
About BotKube
BotKube is a messaging bot for monitoring and debugging Kubernetes clusters. It's built and maintained by InfraCloud. BotKube can be integrated with multiple messaging platforms like Slack, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams to help you monitor your Kubernetes cluster(s), debug critical deployments and gives recommendations for standard practices by running checks on the Kubernetes resources. BotKube watches Kubernetes resources and sends a notification to the channel if any event occurs for example ImagePullBackOff error. You can customize the objects and level of events you want to get from the Kubernetes cluster. You can turn on/off notifications. BotKube can execute kubectl commands on the Kubernetes cluster without giving access to Kubeconfig or underlying infrastructure. With BotKube you can debug your deployment, services or anything about your cluster right from your messaging window.
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