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How CauseFlow Solves Incident Investigation

Stop spending 2-4 hours per incident switching tools. CauseFlow connects to Slack, GitHub, Jira, and CloudWatch, investigates in parallel, and delivers root cause with fix recommendations — fast.

Phase 1 —Assisted Investigation + Remediation

1

Receives the problem

Via web interface, Slack message, Jira/Trello card, or customer email. Describe the problem in natural language — 'the checkout page is returning 500 errors' or 'a customer says their data was deleted' — and the agent starts investigating immediately. Both infrastructure alerts and customer-reported issues.

2

Multiple specialized agents investigate in parallel

Log Analyst — reads error logs, finds patterns and exceptions. Metrics Analyst — analyzes CPU, memory, latency, error rate. Infrastructure Inspector — checks service and container state, recent restarts. Change Detector — finds recent deployments, config changes, code pushes. Code Analyzer — reads relevant code via your connected repository. Database Analyst — queries database state and performance. Each agent gets temporary, read-only credentials scoped to exactly its data source — valid for 15 minutes. If you haven't connected an integration, that agent sits out gracefully.

3

Analyzes and correlates across all sources

Cross-references findings from all active agents. Generates hypotheses, tests each against available evidence, and assigns a confidence score (0-100%) reflecting how many independent data sources corroborate the finding. High confidence: multiple signals agree. Lower confidence: contradicting signals — CauseFlow flags the uncertainty.

4

Delivers complete report

Probable root cause + confidence score + chronological event timeline + specific fix recommendations + customer impact summary (if applicable). Entire investigation takes ~3 minutes.

Semi-Autonomous Remediation

CauseFlow proposes the exact fix: "Revert config max_connections from 50 to 200. This will restart 3 service tasks." You see the proposed change, the affected services, and the estimated impact. Tap Approve — and the fix executes. Nothing runs without your explicit approval. Timeout: if no decision in 30 minutes, the action is automatically cancelled.

Phase 2 —Intelligent Knowledge Base

Every Investigation Makes CauseFlow Smarter

After each investigation, CauseFlow extracts the pattern — root cause signature, fix, confidence — and adds it to the Knowledge Base. Status progresses: Learning → Stable → Runbook Candidate.

First occurrence

~30 min end-to-end

Full investigation by multiple agents. Root cause identified. Fix executed. Pattern added to Knowledge Base.

Second occurrence

Under 2 minutes

Pattern matched immediately. Same fix proposed. Human approves. No full investigation needed.

Knowledge Base entry

Connection pool exhaustion — checkout service

Fix template: Revert max_connections to baseline + alert rule added

After multiple recurrences, CauseFlow flags the pattern as a Runbook Candidate — your L1 support team can resolve it directly, without involving engineers.

On the Roadmap

Phase 3 —Autonomous Remediation

From Reactive to Preventive

Using accumulated investigation data and production patterns, CauseFlow will proactively identify conditions likely to cause incidents before they impact customers — shifting your team from reactive firefighting to predictive prevention. Combined with autonomous remediation (deploy reverts, config adjustments, auto-scaling), always with human-in-the-loop for destructive actions. The goal: prevent incidents before your customers even notice.

Deploy Revert

Automatic rollback with configurable approval gates

Config Adjustment

Automatic configuration fixes with safety guardrails

Automatic Scaling

Intelligent resource scaling based on investigation findings

L1 Ticket Resolution

Autonomous resolution of common support tickets

See exactly what the agent did

Total transparency. Every agent action is recorded in an immutable log visible to you.

Investigation #4821 — 2026-02-12T14:32:00Z
├── [14:32:01] Connected to Slack (workspace: acme-corp)
│ Read 23 messages in #incidents
├── [14:32:05] Connected to GitHub
│ Read 3 recent commits + 1 open PR
├── [14:32:08] Connected to Jira
│ Read ticket ACME-1234
├── [14:32:10] Connected to CloudWatch
│ Read 847 log lines (ERROR)
├── [14:32:15] LLM Analysis
│ Input: 12,400 tokens | Output: 2,100 tokens
└── [14:32:22] Result:
Deploy #482 introduced null pointer in /payments
Confidence: 87% | Duration: 21s

Technical Architecture

Connectivity Layer

Connectivity layer: MCP servers (10,000+ available in the ecosystem, adopted by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft)

Proprietary Core

Proprietary core: Planning engine, hypothesis generation, learning and Knowledge Base

LLM Gateway

LLM Gateway: Uses lightweight models for log reading and data extraction. Reserves higher-capability models for final synthesis and root cause reasoning. This keeps investigations fast without sacrificing accuracy on the decisions that matter.

Security Layer

Security: AWS Bedrock (ISO/IEC 42001), KMS per-tenant, PII Gateway (Presidio)