ops-investigate-alert
Investigate Alert
Investigate a monitoring alert by pulling metrics, logs, traces, and related service code. Symptoms in, root cause hypothesis out.
When to Use
- A monitoring alert fired and you need to understand why
- On-call engineer needs a structured investigation starting point
- Alert is noisy and you want to determine if it's actionable or a false positive
Process
1. Verify Monitoring MCP Availability
Check which monitoring MCP servers are available. Look for any mcp__* tools related to monitoring platforms (Datadog, Grafana, PagerDuty, etc.).
Recommended: Datadog MCP — provides the richest investigation surface (monitors, metrics, logs, traces, events in one platform).
If no monitoring MCP is available, stop with:
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