What is Kindo?

Kindo is an enterprise platform that professionals in DevOps, SecOps, and ITOps can use to create autonomous infrastructure. The Kindo platform help to manage and secure the enterprise by using instructions given to it in natural language. This is accomplished by enabling users to securely create, manage, and deploy agents. These automation workflows gather intelligence, take action, and ultimately enable humans to make strategic decisions faster about how they want to manage, secure, and use their infrastructure.

Through Kindo Agents, enterprise organizations within IT Ops, DevOps, and Security can leverage automation to help uplevel and support their technical professionals. Whether it's performing first order analysis using real-time threat intelligence on a potential security event, or responding to helpdesk requests, Kindo is a platform designed to free humans from routine and repetitive workflows and help them to make strategic decision faster.

Kindo is unique in that it can leverage natural language to take technical action. Kindo's agents are able to read human-written technical documents, existing playbooks or runbooks, combining them with data gathered from code or infrastructure configurations into technical action. Kindo additionally has strong security controls that enable users and Kindo Agents to best utilize resources and agents.

Who is Kindo Built For?

Kindo is designed for technical professionals working in DevOps, SecOps, and ITOps who are in charge of workflows to secure and manage their organization. This documentation typically refers to these individuals as Kindo Users as they typically engage in activities such as:

• Communicating with LLMs manually for tasks, such as completing incident responses or root cause analyses.  

• Creating and managing agents that automate workflows used by themselves or others.

• Communicating with Kindo-managed agents or LLMs via APIs.

Because of Kindo’s focus on the enterprise, and the frequent sensitivity of data used within Kindo, there is typically another type of operator that exists to protect and manage Kindo Users. They are known as Kindo Administrators (or simply Admins). Admins are given powers within Kindo to ensure user and agentic workflows within Kindo operate according to their organization’s governance, security, and compliance requirements. Admins typically use Kindo to:

• Manage how Users and User Groups have access to/capabilities within resources: Large Language Models (LLMs), Integrations, etc.

• Manage how Users and User Groups have access to/capabilities within agents.

• Enforce the use of Secrets Managers and/or prescribe Data Loss Prevention (DLP) filters to protect data privacy.

• Manage Users and User Groups within their organization.  

• For Self-Managed Kindo, deploy and manage the Kindo platform within self-managed infrastructure.

Kindo Versions

There are two versions of Kindo available:

• Kindo SaaS: This is a version of Kindo hosted by Kindo and provided as a SaaS offering to its customers.

• Kindo Self-Managed: This is a version of Kindo that is self-hosted and self-managed by a customer within their own cloud and/or on-prem environment. It is designed to ensure customers can deploy Kindo and its logging/security infrastructure using wholly self-managed resources, ensuring maximum privacy for Kindo chats and agents as well as enabling the use of automation within Kindo to interact with data/systems contained in self-managed environments and VPCs.
  
  See here for more details on Kindo Self-Managed.

Feature Comparison of Kindo Versions