Investigation agent · Read-only by default

Alert Investigator

First-line triage on every alert.

When an alert fires, the Alert Investigator reads system state, correlates with recent changes, ranks blast radius, surfaces the most-likely runbook, and suggests an escalation path. Purely read-only — it never modifies anything — so it's safe to roll out on day one, even in the most regulated environments.

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Does this match you?

The safest way to put AI on your alert pipeline.

Good fit if you…

✓Want AI on alerts without giving it execution authority on day one
✓Deal with high alert volume and need first-line triage in seconds
✓Need structured context in Slack before the pager goes off
✓Run in regulated workloads where zero-modification is mandatory
✓Want a stepping stone to full remediation (Auto-Remediator) later

Probably not a fit if you…

!Want the agent to actually fix problems — see Auto-Remediator
!Have fewer than a handful of alerts per week (low ROI)

Lifecycle

Four stages, pure investigation.

Ingest & deduplicate

Alert arrives from any webhook provider. Signature verified, fingerprint computed, fast-path dedup skips noisy repeats within a configurable correlation window.

Gather context — read only

Agent pulls recent logs, metric context, traces, dependency health, and recent changes. Only read-only tools allowed — kubectl get, git log, HTTP GETs, SQL EXPLAIN.

Write a finding

Structured output: severity classification, blast radius (services/users affected), most-likely cause, linked recent changes, the best-matching runbook from your knowledge base.

Notify with context

The finding is posted to Slack/Telegram/email with the full analysis, actionable buttons ("Escalate", "Ack", "Clone to remediator"). Humans walk into a hot alert with structured context, not a raw Prometheus URL.

Sample output

What lands in your Slack.

Veirox · Alert Investigator

#alerts · 3 s ago

P1 · Critical

checkout-api p99 latency > 2s for 4 min

Blast radius

2 downstream services · ~12K active users

Most likely cause

Deploy checkout-api@v2.3.1 38 min ago — changed retry logic

Suggested runbook

"High API latency" · view

3 similar alerts in past 24h · 2 resolved by rollback

Escalate to @sre-oncall Clone to Auto-Remediator Ack

Typical outcomes

Measurable after one week.

<5s

median time from alert arrival to Slack finding

40–60%

reduction in on-call investigation time per alert

destructive actions taken — it literally cannot

Getting started

Two-minute setup.

1Clone the Alert Investigator template at /console/tasks → New from template.
2Point your AlertManager/Grafana/Datadog webhook at the task's ingest URL.
3(Optional) Paste your runbooks into the knowledge base for smarter triage.

After comfort: upgrade to Auto-Remediator for approval-gated execution.