The architecture of
autonomous investigation
When alerts fire, Tracer gathers context, investigates, and returns a clear root cause.
Layer 001
Alert intake
Tracer ingests alerts from metrics, logs, traces, or incident systems and normalizes them into a single investigation state.
Normalize signals into one state.
Layer 002
Context assembly
Tracer enriches the alert with:
- Service ownership and dependencies
- Recent deploys and config changes
- Baselines and related signals
Attach topology, changes, baselines.
Layer 003
Problem framing
Tracer identifies impacted components, plausible failure modes, and investigation objectives.
Rank components and hypotheses.
Layer 004
Agentic investigation loop
- Plans next queries (logs, metrics, diffs)
- Executes against observability and prod tooling
- Synthesizes evidence into evolving hypotheses
Query, test, update confidence.
Layer 005
Termination decision
Tracer continuously evaluates:
- Hypothesis confidence
- Remaining uncertainty
- Marginal value of further investigation
Stops when additional queries are unlikely to change the outcome.
Stop when uncertainty plateaus.
Layer 006
Actionable root-case report
Tracer produces:
- Likely root cause(s)
- Supporting evidence
- Recommended next actions
Delivered to Slack, incident tools, or internal systems.
Evidence-backed root cause + next steps.