Keep (keephq) is the closest open-source neighbour to Saneops. We respect Keep — Saneops's provider-abstraction layer credits Keep under MIT in our ATTRIBUTIONS file. Both products tackle alert correlation, dedup, and workflow automation. The honest framing: Keep is open-source-first, community-driven, deeply customisable; Saneops is product-first, opinionated about LLM RCA, and built for solo / small SaaS teams who want fewer knobs.
Where Keep is strongest
- Open source. Apache 2.0, full source on GitHub, unlimited self-modification.
- Workflow YAML ecosystem. Hundreds of community workflows shareable as YAML files.
- Provider catalog. 80+ providers contributed by the community.
- CEL expressions. Powerful filtering and routing logic.
- Multi-tenancy via separate deployments. Common pattern for self-hosters.
Where Saneops is different
- Built-in LLM RCA. Keep treats LLM as a workflow action; Saneops treats it as a first-class incident-level capability with provider auto-detection and centroid-based incident summarisation.
- Multi-tenant from day one. One Saneops deployment hosts many isolated workspaces with per-tenant API keys, LLM keys, RBAC, audit log, and quotas.
- Idle-incident sweep. Keep's resolve relies on source-side; Saneops adds a Keep-style time-based sweep on top so incidents don't go zombie when sources don't send
resolved. - Visual workflow builder. Drag-and-drop canvas plus YAML editor with bidirectional sync.
- Hosted SaaS option. Saneops Cloud handles ops for teams that don't want to self-host. Keep's hosted offering exists but is optional and not the primary distribution mode.
Detailed comparison
| Capability | Keep | Saneops |
|---|---|---|
| License | Apache 2.0 (open source) | Source-available to paid customers under NDA; Docker image distribution |
| Alert correlation | Rules + groupings | Label-strong + semantic similarity, on by default |
| Dedup | Yes | Content-hash + flap detection, per-tenant rules |
| LLM RCA | Workflow action | First-class incident-level draft, BYOK across 7 providers |
| Auto-resolve (idle sweep) | Yes (LAST_ALERT_RESOLUTION_TIME) | Yes (auto_resolve_after_minutes), default 24h |
| Workflow YAML | Strong, community-driven | Strong, opinionated, AI-generated from natural language |
| Visual workflow builder | Roadmap / partial | Built-in, bidirectional with YAML |
| Multi-tenancy | Per-deployment | Native multi-tenant, single deployment |
| Hosted SaaS | Available (Keep Cloud) | Available (Saneops Cloud) |
| Self-host | Docker / Helm | Docker, Helm on roadmap |
| Provider catalog | 80+ community | ~20 first-party (Grafana / Datadog / PagerDuty / Prometheus / Slack / Teams / OpsGenie / Zenduty / generic + LLM providers) |
Public documentation as of May 2026. Both products are actively developed.
When to pick Keep
- You want full source and the freedom to fork
- You have engineering bandwidth to wire up and maintain a self-hosted alert correlation platform
- You need a niche provider integration that someone in the Keep community has already shipped
- Your team prefers configuration-as-code (YAML-first)
When to pick Saneops
- You want LLM-drafted RCA built in, not as a workflow action you have to wire
- You want a hosted SaaS as the default with self-host as an option
- You need per-tenant isolation in a single deployment (multi-customer)
- You're a small team that wants opinionated defaults rather than maximum knob count
FAQ
Are you a Keep fork?
No. Saneops is independently built. We credit Keep under MIT for the provider-abstraction pattern in backend/app/providers/ — that's the only Keep-derived code in the codebase, and it's clearly attributed in ATTRIBUTIONS.md.
Will you open-source Saneops?
The decision is deferred until after the closed beta. Today's distribution is source-available to paid customers under NDA, with the runtime shipped as a Docker image. The license question is a business decision tied to how monetisation evolves; we'll communicate clearly when we decide.
Can I move from Keep to Saneops?
Most Keep workflow YAMLs need adaptation — Saneops's action namespaces and trigger schema are similar in spirit but not 1:1 with Keep's. The webhook ingestion side migrates trivially because both consume the same upstream Grafana / Datadog / Prometheus payloads.
Keep is an open-source project licensed under Apache 2.0 by techhala / keephq contributors. Saneops respects and credits Keep where applicable.