#34 in Monitoring & ObservabilityUpdated 2026-08

Wachd

by Wachd · Self-hosted on-call with AI root cause analysis on Kubernetes

33.2 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Wachd is a self-hosted on-call tool that receives alerts from Grafana, Datadog and Prometheus by webhook. For each alert it collects recent commits, 30 minutes of error logs and metric history, strips PII, then uses an in-cluster or cloud model to produce a plain-English root cause. It also covers rotas, escalation and per-user SMS, voice, email and Slack notifications.

Best for: DevOps and SRE teams who need on-call and incident data to stay inside their own cluster
Pricing: Free self-hosted Apache 2.0 tier, SMB at $99/month, and a custom-priced Enterprise tier listed as coming soon.
Runs on: Self-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Runs in your own cluster; air-gapped with in-cluster models
Apache 2.0 free tier covers unlimited teams and users
Read-only: cannot deploy, restart or change infrastructure
Pulls commits, logs and metrics into one root-cause summary

Trade-offs

Self-hosting needs a Kubernetes cluster; no hosted option is offered
SSO, audit logs and compliance reports sit in an unreleased tier
Cloud AI models (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini) require the $99/mo tier
Enterprise pricing is not published — sales contact only

Pricing

Published plans from Wachd’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.

Wachd pricing tiers, monthly rates in USD
Plan	Monthly	Includes
Open Source	—	Core AI alert analysis via Ollama On-call scheduling, escalation and per-user notification rules Slack, email, SMS and voice delivery Unlimited teams and users, Apache 2.0 licence
SMB	$99per month	Everything in Open Source Cloud AI: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini 30-day incident history exports Priority email support and commercial licence
Enterprise	Contact sales	Everything in SMB SSO: Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace SOC2 and ISO 27001 compliance reports, full audit logs SLA, dedicated support and professional services

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 0 out of 100
Documentation: 0 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 61 out of 100
Changelog: 100 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 50 out of 100
Operational trust: 35 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 30 out of 100
Maintenance: 90 out of 100

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