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Nines is an open-source SLO platform with MCP tools

What to do

Try Nines on Prometheus or Mimir if you want SLOs defined in versioned YAML and MCP access.

Why

It is an Apache-2.0 pre-release MVP, so expect rough edges.

Read the source at ishantanu.github.io

What the research found

Nines is a pre-release MVP open-source (Apache-2.0), self-hosted SLO platform that uses Prometheus or Mimir and offers MCP tools, with SLOs defined in a versioned YAML API.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Nines is an open-source, self-hosted SLO platform licensed Apache-2.0 98%
  2. Nines is a pre-release MVP 98%
  3. Nines reads Prometheus or Mimir sources and generates recording and two-window burn-rate rules 97%
  4. SLO definitions use the nines.dev/v1alpha1 YAML API that can be validated offline 98%

Evidence

Actionability rated low.