How to Build Alert Workflows that Actually Work | KeepHQ Demo

This is a quickstart to Keep, an open-source platform for alert management and workflow automation. Matvey Kukuy shows us how to:
1. Set up Keep with a MySQL database using Docker
2. Create a workflow that:
Receives alerts
Queries a MySQL database
Sends webhooks based on query results
Tal Borenstein sprinkles a high level perspective, and helps fix a misconfiguration.
Key features highlighted:
Workflows can be defined in YAML (similar to GitHub Actions syntax)
Supports multiple trigger types: alerts, incidents, manual triggers, and intervals
Includes deduplication and correlation of alerts
Integrates with external systems via "providers" (MySQL, HTTP webhooks, etc.)
Orbstack & webhook.site are worth exploring on your own.
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00:16 Setup Keep locally
01:21 Orbstack
02:20 Our first alert
03:07 What makes Keep different
04:30 Let me try to understand this
06:21 Our first workflow
13:29 GitHub Actions for monitoring tools
19:50 I can't believe it worked
22:43 Something bad happened
28:01 Reporting capabilities