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AI agents for DevOps and SRE engineers (2026)

AI SRE agents, observability, sandboxes and deployment tools for keeping systems and agents running. We picked the top tools for 5 jobs DevOps and SRE engineers do every day: 29 tools in all, 28 of them free or with a free tier.

Jump to: Incidents and infrastructure · Monitor agents in production · Deploy and host agents · Run code safely · Agent security

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How we picked: each section takes the tools matched to that task in our directory, putting tools whose category and stated use cases fit the task first, then ordering by tracked GitHub stars. No paid placements.

Incidents and infrastructure

AI SRE agents and MCP servers that investigate alerts, read dashboards and CI logs, and help manage cloud infrastructure, so incidents get a first look before anyone is paged. All 15 tools →

OneUptime MCP Open source + cloud
OneUptime's official MCP server, giving agents access to monitors, incidents, on-call and status pages in this open-source observability platform. Free plan, paid plans from $22 per user, or self-host. · ★ 7,751
Raven Open source
Host agent that plans complex jobs as task graphs and coordinates built-in and third-party agents for research, coding, design and on-call work. · ★ 5,518
kagent Open source
Cloud-native framework for running AI agents on Kubernetes. · ★ 4,035
Radar Open source
Open-source Kubernetes UI with a built-in MCP server for agents. · ★ 3,826
HolmesGPT Open source
CNCF sandbox SRE agent that investigates alerts and incidents. · ★ 3,616
Grafana MCP Open source
Grafana's MCP server giving agents access to dashboards, data sources and incidents. · ★ 3,568

Monitor agents in production

Observability for agents in production: traces, costs, latency and errors in one place. All 34 tools →

MLflow Open source + cloud
Open-source platform for tracing, evaluating and managing agents, LLM apps and ML models. · ★ 28,418
Opik Open source + cloud
Comet's open-source platform for tracing, evaluating and monitoring LLM apps, RAG systems and agent workflows, self-hosted or in the cloud. · ★ 22,700
Arize Phoenix Source-available + cloud
Open-source tracing and evaluation for LLM apps. · ★ 11,828
OneUptime MCP Open source + cloud
OneUptime's official MCP server, giving agents access to monitors, incidents, on-call and status pages in this open-source observability platform. Free plan, paid plans from $22 per user, or self-host. · ★ 7,751
Failproof AI Open source
Observability and policy enforcement for AI agent harnesses. · ★ 5,560
agentgateway Open source
Proxy for AI agents and MCP servers with security and observability. · ★ 5,373

Deploy and host agents

Infrastructure for running agents in production: hosting, scaling and serverless runtimes. All 24 tools →

Sim Studio Open source + cloud
Workspace for visually building, deploying and monitoring AI agents and workflows. · ★ 29,835
Google ADK Open source
Google's Agent Development Kit for building and deploying agents. · ★ 21,826
RocketRide Open source
AI pipeline engine with a C++ core and 50+ Python nodes for building, debugging and deploying LLM workflows and agents from VS Code or the CLI. · ★ 17,753
Trigger.dev Open source + cloud
Platform for building and deploying durable background AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. · ★ 16,558
VoltAgent Open source + cloud
TypeScript agent framework plus an engineering platform for building, observing and deploying AI agents. · ★ 10,819
Nasiko Open source
Open runtime for deploying and operating AI agents. · ★ 9,479

Run code safely

Sandboxes that let agents run code and tools in isolation, away from your machine and data. All 61 tools →

NVIDIA OpenShell Open source
Sandboxed runtime for autonomous agents with declarative YAML policies on file, network and credential access. · ★ 16,156
OpenSandbox Open source
Secure, fast sandbox runtime for AI agents to run code. · ★ 15,907
CubeSandbox Open source
Lightweight, concurrent sandbox for running AI agent code securely. · ★ 12,960
microsandbox Open source
Local-first microVM runtime for running untrusted agent code safely. · ★ 8,717
smolvm Open source
Portable, branchable virtual machine for running agents safely on your computer. · ★ 6,746
agentOS Open source + cloud
A lightweight operating system for agents from Rivet that runs coding agents and their tools inside fast WebAssembly sandboxes with a file system, processes and networking, so you can spin up thousands cheaply. · ★ 4,808

Agent security

Guardrails, policies and monitoring that keep agents from doing what they shouldn't. All 53 tools →

Strix Open source + cloud
Open-source AI agents that run penetration tests on your app to find and help fix security vulnerabilities. · ★ 69,022
LiteLLM Open source + cloud
Open-source AI gateway and Python SDK that calls 100+ LLM providers in the OpenAI format, with cost tracking, guardrails, load balancing and logging. · ★ 61,465
Kong Gateway Open source + cloud
Cloud-native API, LLM and MCP gateway that adds routing, auth, multi-LLM support, semantic security and MCP traffic analytics through plugins. · ★ 44,278
PentAGI Open source
Autonomous multi-agent system for running penetration testing tasks. · ★ 30,728
Casdoor Open source
Agent-first identity and access management with an MCP and agent gateway. · ★ 14,592
Portkey AI Gateway Freemium
Fast open-source AI gateway that routes requests to hundreds of LLMs through one API with fallbacks, load balancing and built-in guardrails. · ★ 13,214