A lightweight agent watches every layer of your stack. When something fails, AI explains exactly what happened, why it happened, and what to fix — posted to Slack before you finish reading the alert.
CPU usage reached 97.3% on prod-web-01, sustained for 4 minutes. The spike correlates with a deployment at 03:11 AM. Process nginx is consuming 89% of available CPU, likely due to a misconfigured worker_processes count after the config update.
nginx misconfiguration in deployment #847
The average engineer spends over an hour figuring out what broke before they can start fixing it.
Non-DevOps engineers ping the DevOps team for every infrastructure question. At 3am. Every time.
After the incident is resolved, nobody has energy to write the postmortem. It gets skipped. Problems repeat.
Run one command. Agent starts monitoring immediately. No config files to write, no dashboards.
curl -sSL https://install.tracegrid.app | bash
The agent reads system metrics, process states, and container events from every layer.
Tracegrid identifies the root cause, and writes a plain-English explanation with fix steps.
When resolved, a complete postmortem appears in the Slack thread automatically.
The payments-api pod has restarted 8 times in 10 minutes. Container logs show: 'ERROR: DB_HOST is not set'. The application validates environment variables on startup and exits when required config is missing.
Missing DB_HOST environment variable in pod spec
| Feature | Datadog | PagerDuty | Prometheus | Tracegrid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detects incidents | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alerts your team | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Explains what broke | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Explains why | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Suggests the fix | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Auto postmortem | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Installs in 5 min | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No DevOps expertise | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Starting price | $15/host | $21/user | Free* | Free trial |
*Prometheus footnote: "Free to install. ~3 days to configure. Requires ongoing maintenance. Requires PromQL expertise to use."
Install as a systemd service. Works on any Linux distribution. EC2, bare metal, VPS — if it runs Linux, Tracegrid runs on it.
curl -sSL https://install.tracegrid.app | bash
Deploy as a DaemonSet. One pod per node. Watches cluster events, pod states, node conditions — everything kubectl describe shows.
kubectl apply -f tracegrid-daemonset.yaml
ECS, Cloud Run, Azure Container Apps — full cloud platform support is on the roadmap. AWS-native support coming Q4.
Install Tracegrid in 5 minutes. Get your first incident explanation before your coffee gets cold.
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