https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/ Practical Kubernetes guides, operations at scale, and notes from building KubeBolt. en Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/how-i-test-kobi-in-azure/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/how-i-test-kobi-in-azure/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina Before Kobi reads anything in your cloud, it has to find the cause when the cluster says everything is fine. We built a lab in Azure, break things the way they break in real life, ask Kobi the question an operator would ask, and grade every answer against criteria written before we start. This is the method, with what each test cost. Engineering AI Ops https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-2-4-cards-that-name-names/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-2-4-cards-that-name-names/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina In 2.4, every lit card in KubeBolt names the resource that's failing, says since when, and takes you to it. Here's what each card says now, the color rules, what happens to a cluster when its agent stops connecting, and the rest of the release. Product Observability https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-2-3-dashboards-card-by-card/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-2-3-dashboards-card-by-card/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina In 2.3 we redesigned almost every KubeBolt dashboard. Each one now starts with a row of cards, each with its figure and its chart. Here's what every card on Overview, Fleet and Home tells you, when it changes color, and where to look next. Product Observability https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-2-2-connect-your-agent/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-2-2-connect-your-agent/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina KubeBolt 2.2 introduces MCP-only API keys: they reach the MCP server and nothing else, with the role pinned to viewer and the cluster list you tick. Twenty-nine read tools for the agent you already have open, and thirteen of them are new. Product AI Ops https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/auditing-your-site-against-your-code/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/auditing-your-site-against-your-code/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina Your code has tests. Your infrastructure has drift detection. The sentence on your site promising where your customer's data lives has nothing. We checked our own site against our own source and it didn't come through clean. Here is the method — and why the most dangerous finding is not the one that contradicts you. Engineering Trust https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/the-prompt-carries-the-map/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/the-prompt-carries-the-map/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina When you hand documentation to an assistant, the instinct is to paste all of it. The instinct is wrong, and the reason isn't context size — it's the cache. Kobi ships an index worth 5% of the corpus and fetches a whole page only when the question needs it. Here is what it cost, latency bill included. Engineering AI Ops https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-2-1-insights-with-memory/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-2-1-insights-with-memory/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina An insight that switches on and off can't tell you whether you have an incident or a pattern. In 2.1 every detection opens a durable episode with its own timeline, its recurrence counted and its policy per environment — and the product tells you when its own voice is off. Product Observability https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/three-llms-better-than-one/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/three-llms-better-than-one/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina Using one big model for every incident burns money. Here's how KubeBolt routes across a deterministic layer, Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus to resolve incidents end-to-end for under $1 each. Engineering AI Ops https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/hidden-cost-per-user-pricing/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/hidden-cost-per-user-pricing/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina Most observability tools bill per active user and per host. The result: your monitoring bill scales with headcount, not with the system you actually run. Here's the math — and why per-resource pricing changes it. FinOps Observability https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/six-layer-autonomous-operations-engine/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/six-layer-autonomous-operations-engine/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina Most AI Ops tools are black boxes that return magic answers. Here's how we built the opposite: a six-layer engine where a deterministic Layer 1 resolves the majority of incidents with no LLM call, and the LLM never touches your cluster directly. Architecture AI Ops https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/why-we-built-kubebolt/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/why-we-built-kubebolt/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina The observability market looks saturated — Datadog, Grafana, New Relic. So why build KubeBolt? Because there's a gap none of the incumbents can fill without rewriting their product. Industry take https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/common-kubernetes-errors/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/common-kubernetes-errors/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina A practical guide to the most common Kubernetes errors — CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, OOMKilled, Pending pods and probe failures — with the kubectl commands to diagnose and fix each. Kubernetes Troubleshooting https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-oss-first/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/kubebolt-oss-first/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina Open source isn't just a go-to-market for infrastructure tools — it's a covenant with your users. Why we shipped KubeBolt as Apache 2.0 and what we promise stays that way. Open source https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/automate-kubernetes-incident-resolution/ https://kubebolt.io/en/blog/automate-kubernetes-incident-resolution/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Leafar Maina Alerts tell you something broke — they don't fix it. A practical look at the levels of Kubernetes incident automation, from runbooks to autonomous remediation, and how to do it safely. Kubernetes Incident Response