AlertKick is built by engineers who've spent years running production infrastructure. Every feature comes directly from that work - which checks actually catch incidents, which alerts actually matter, and the real cost of stitching together the tools most teams end up stitching together.
Setting up monitoring for an infrastructure is a pain in the ass. It takes numerous tools - one for metrics, another for logs, another for uptime, another for heartbeats, another for on-call, another again for runtime security. Each of them needs its own code, its own config, its own rules language, its own deploy pipeline. You stitch them together with glue, write exporters, and spend your week in YAML.
Then it breaks. Stacks always break in the cracks between the tools. At that point the team does the only thing it can - someone becomes "the monitoring person". Their whole week is keeping the stack alive. That's not a great outcome for them, and it's not a great outcome for the team, because every hour they spend on monitoring is an hour not spent on the product.
AlertKick is deliberately opinionated. It's not a generic tool with endless options that lets you build your own monitoring setup. Years of SRE work taught us what matters, what to monitor, how to alert, and what escalation levels make sense. Those opinions are baked in as defaults. You install the agent, and the right things are already being watched.
One agent. One dashboard. One bill. Infrastructure metrics, heartbeats, alerting, on-call, eBPF-based runtime security - all in the same product, shipping with sensible defaults out of the box. No hundred-page documentation. No thousand-line configs. No surprise bills. No babysitting.
AlertKick is built for any team that would rather have monitoring that just works than a monitoring stack that needs operating. From a handful of servers to a few hundred, you get the same complete product - infrastructure metrics, uptime, on-call, and eBPF runtime security - without putting someone on permanent "monitoring duty".
If you've got a dedicated observability team and strong preferences about how your rules get templated, there are tools built to give you that flexibility. AlertKick is not that tool. It's the one that makes that work disappear in the first place.
AlertKick exists to solve problems real SRE teams face every day. If you've hit the same wall, or if there's a default that's wrong for the way your team runs, we want to hear about it. Your feedback shapes what this becomes.