Comparison
Rancher Oracle
Oracle is a hosted RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) service that searches a curated corpus of 48,000+ real issue resolutions from K3s, Rancher, RKE2, Longhorn, Harvester, and other SUSE/Rancher projects. Diagnostics include direct links to the GitHub issues that informed the fix.Set up Oracle
Get an API key and connect to Oracle
BYO Model
Point Pastures at any OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. Supported providers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, Azure OpenAI, and any custom endpoint that implements the OpenAI chat completions API.Set up BYO model
Configure your own model endpoint
BYO mode provides AI diagnostics using your chosen model’s general knowledge. It does not include source citations from the Rancher ecosystem or cross-cluster fleet correlation — those features require the Oracle corpus.