Deployment Options

Robusta is delivered through the Robusta Platform — a centralized place to control your SRE agents, triage alerts, and review investigation timelines. The Platform is available as SaaS (hosted by Robusta) or Self-Hosted (for organizations with dedicated infrastructure requirements).

SaaS (Hosted)

The hosted Platform runs in Robusta's infrastructure. You install the in-cluster Agent, sign up at platform.robusta.dev, and your alerts and investigations stream into the hosted UI.

The SaaS Platform is SOC 2 compliant and available in multiple regions, including the US, EU, and Asia Pacific.

Most teams use SaaS — it's the fastest path to the complete feature set.

Self-Hosted

The same Platform, deployed inside your own infrastructure. Intended for organizations that require dedicated infrastructure (regulatory, data residency, or air-gapped requirements).

Self-hosted deployments are available on enterprise plans — contact support@robusta.dev.

Pricing

The SaaS Platform is free to get started, with paid tiers for larger teams and advanced features. Self-hosted deployments require an enterprise plan.

Open Source

HolmesGPT — the SRE agent at the core of Robusta — is MIT-licensed and a CNCF sandbox project.

Standalone HolmesGPT:

  • CLI only — no web UI

  • HTTP API for programmatic access

The Robusta Platform (SaaS or Self-Hosted) adds on top:

  • A web interface

  • HolmesGPT bots for Slack and Microsoft Teams

  • Automatic alert triage and grouping

  • Background agents that proactively investigate and surface issues

Robusta Classic

Before HolmesGPT, Robusta's open source engine focused on rule-based automation — enriching alerts with extra context (logs, pod status, resource graphs) and routing them to Slack, Teams, and other sinks using configurable playbooks. This is sometimes referred to as Robusta Classic.

If you are running Robusta Classic, upgrading to HolmesGPT is a configuration change — no migration required.