DataAgent Releases Self-Service Lab for Building Autonomous SREs with K8sGPT

New DataAgent Lab provides open-source detection pack and creates path from passive alerting to self-healing infrastructure

TEL AVIV, Israel  , Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DataAgent, the developer of a remediation-first Digital Immune System (DIS) for modern applications, today announced that the company has released DataAgent Lab, a new self-service lab for building autonomous SREs with CNCF K8sGPT.

DataAgent Lab enables DevOps, SRE and platform teams to deploy an autonomous agent in a local environment to simulate infrastructure failures, uncover what the agent catches that traditional dashboards miss and build autonomous SRE workflows on top of K8sGPT. By running entirely on a local machine, engineers can evaluate detection and remediation workflows against real-world failures without granting external tools administrative access, ensuring production clusters remain completely untouched.

DataAgent Lab provides a comprehensive local testing environment built around four core capabilities:

• Pre-configured local environment - deploys a self-contained testbed using kind to run local Kubernetes clusters in Docker, bundled with sample microservices, Prometheus, Grafana and K8sGPT.
• Apache 2.0 detection pack - extends K8sGPT to detect early warning signs before terminal state changes, such as CrashLoopBackOff or OOMKilled, occur.
• Five detection vectors - analyzes metric trends, real-time cluster events, configuration drift, Kubernetes audit logs and unstructured log patterns.
• Non-forking architecture - interfaces directly with K8sGPT's native Result schema, ensuring full compatibility with existing K8sGPT installations.

DataAgent Lab and the detection pack are available immediately as open-source software under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub.

DataAgent invites engineers to join the community and contribute real-world failure patterns from their own production environments, documenting how each issue surfaced and what caught it, so every participant's autonomous agent improves.

"K8sGPT is very good at reporting crashes, but real systems degrade silently long before anything breaks," said Nati Shalom, Co-Founder and CTO of DataAgent. "Our new self-service lab lets DevOps teams and platform engineers build autonomous SREs that identify those early warning signs locally. Rather than forking K8sGPT, we filled those gaps natively so the entire community benefits with a detect now, act safely later approach."

DataAgent Lab serves as the foundation for DataAgent's broader remediation-first platform. While the open-source pack identifies silent infrastructure degradation, the DataAgent platform pairs these diagnostics with remediation pipelines that route automated fixes through GitOps pull requests and human review before execution.

"Observability has become too expensive, data-heavy and reactive, burying engineers under dashboards that only tell them something broke 20 minutes ago," said Ishay Yaari, Co-Founder and CEO of DataAgent. "With this community release, we are giving teams a hands-on path toward self-healing infrastructure and autonomous operations that safely resolve issues before an outage occurs."

DataAgent will be presenting the new DataAgent Lab this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City. Engineering leaders and platform teams are invited to visit DataAgent at Booth 268 or schedule a demo.

About DataAgent

DataAgent is an autonomous observability and remediation platform that helps engineering teams move from detecting problems to autonomously resolving them. A lightweight agent runs inside each Kubernetes cluster, reads state, topology and change at the source, and applies verified, reversible fixes within the guardrails the customer sets, alongside the observability tools teams already run. DataAgent was founded in early 2026 by Ishay Yaari and Nati Shalom, who previously led Cloudify through its acquisition by Dell. The company closed a $10 million pre-seed round in January 2026 and shipped its first product version in June 2026. Learn more at www.data-agent.co.

SOURCE DataAgent