# Kestrel

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kestrel/  
**Website:** https://usekestrel.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Kestrel AI is a YC-backed startup building an AI-native cloud incident response platform. Founded by former Illumio Kubernetes Security engineers, Kestrel uses autonomous AI agents to detect, investigate, and remediate infrastructure incidents across Kubernetes and cloud environments. The platform provides continuous monitoring, root cause analysis, and automated remediation through GitOps workflows, integrating with Slack, PagerDuty, GitHub, GitLab, AWS, and major observability platforms.

## Kin Score — 24.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 24.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 7.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 55.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Kestrel Platform** — Kestrel AI provides an AI-native cloud incident response platform that uses autonomous agents to detect, investigate, and remediate Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure incidents...
- **Kestrel Kubernetes Operator** — The Kestrel Kubernetes Operator is an open-source Go-based operator that connects Kubernetes clusters to the Kestrel AI platform. It communicates via bidirectional gRPC streamin...

## Security (1)

- **Kestrel Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Kestrel Plans Pricing**

## Tags

AI Agents, Cloud Security, Incident Response, Kubernetes, Observability

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kestrel/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.