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  1. Investigations overview. This page shows all past investigations, sorted by date. Click into an investigation for more detail. 
    Investigations
  2. Investigation summary. Click into an investigation for a breakdown of what happened.
    Investigation
  3. Reports. On the right hand side of an investigation page, you’ll find a minimum of 3 investigation reports. 
    1. problem.md - This report includes a description of the problem as understood and preliminary investigation.
    2. theory/hypothesis_x.md - This report shows the root cause hypothesis that was tested following dependency investigation. Depending on how many root cause hypotheses were tested, you may see multiple reports. 
    3. report.md - This report shows you a summary of the investigation.
    Reports
  4. Summary. On the left hand side of an investigation page, you’ll see the full summary of the investigation including:
    1. Alert - The original alert
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  5. Description - A description of the issue in plain English.
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  6. Process - The process Tracer followed to investigate the issue including:
    1. Runbooks and artifacts consulted by the AI agent
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    2. Plan - the steps the AI agent(s) took to investigate the issue
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    3. Investigation summary and recommended next steps
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You also have the option to chat with the report if you want to dig deeper. 
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Slack reports

If you’ve set up the Slack integration, Tracer will send a concise investigation summary into Slack. 
Slack Alert