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: 27 tools in all, 27 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 8 tools →
- 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 - Chaterm Open source
Open-source AI terminal for deploying, troubleshooting and automating cloud infrastructure. · ★ 3,095 - Terraform MCP Server Open source
HashiCorp's Terraform MCP server for looking up providers and modules and automating workflows. · ★ 1,550
Monitor agents in production
Observability for agents in production: traces, costs, latency and errors in one place. All 16 tools →
- MLflow Open source + cloud
Open-source platform for tracing, evaluating and managing agents, LLM apps and ML models. · ★ 28,418 - Arize Phoenix Open source
Open-source tracing and evaluation for LLM apps. · ★ 11,828 - 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 - Agenta Open source + cloud
Open-source LLMOps platform for prompt management, evaluation and observability. · ★ 4,840 - Cloudflare MCP Servers Open source
Cloudflare's collection of MCP servers for Workers, observability, DNS analytics and other Cloudflare services. · ★ 4,387
Deploy and host agents
Infrastructure for running agents in production: hosting, scaling and serverless runtimes. All 13 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 - 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 - Open Multi-Agent Open source
Self-hosted TypeScript agent runtime with durable approvals and verifiable run records. · ★ 7,001
Run code safely
Sandboxes that let agents run code and tools in isolation, away from your machine and data. All 22 tools →
- Context Mode Open source
Context window optimizer for coding agents that sandboxes tool output and persists session memory. · ★ 30,192 - Cua Open source + cloud
Open-source infrastructure for computer-use agents: sandboxes, drivers across operating systems and benchmarks. · ★ 29,966 - 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 - Open SWE Open source
LangChain's asynchronous coding agent that takes work from GitHub issues, Slack or Linear, implements it in an isolated sandbox and opens a pull request. · ★ 11,034
Agent security
Guardrails, policies and monitoring that keep agents from doing what they shouldn't. All 31 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 - 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 - Guardrails AI Open source + cloud
Open-source framework for validating LLM inputs and outputs with configurable guardrails. · ★ 7,529 - Agent Governance Toolkit Open source
Microsoft toolkit for policy enforcement, identity and sandboxing for AI agents. · ★ 6,435 - Failproof AI Open source
Observability and policy enforcement for AI agent harnesses. · ★ 5,560
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