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I Stopped Fighting My Logging Tools and Built an AI Co-Investigator
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I Stopped Fighting My Logging Tools and Built an AI Co-Investigator

via Dev.toMarc O Cleirigh1mo ago

TL;DR: I restructured my team's scattered documentation into an AI-queryable format, modelled every service's Splunk log events as TypeScript types, and built an investigation workflow around it. Complex incident investigations went from ~2 hours to ~30 minutes, and the system gets smarter with every investigation archived. Who this is for: Backend and platform engineers dealing with on-call rotations, incident investigation across multiple services, and documentation that never stays current. It's 2 AM. PagerDuty wakes you up. The alert says something is wrong with a service you haven't touched in months. You open Splunk. You open New Relic. You open your IDE. You open Slack. And then you open your team's documentation — Confluence, a wiki, whatever your team uses — and the real challenge starts. Not the tool's fault. This is a people problem. The documentation is scattered across dozens of pages written by different engineers in different eras. Half of it is stale. The service got re

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