· 2026-08-31 · 17 min read

AWS Root Cause Analysis with AI | Sherlocks AI

Investigate AWS incidents in minutes. Sherlocks AI correlates CloudWatch, logs, traces, deployments, code, and dependencies to explain root cause.

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AI Incident Investigation for AWS

Sherlocks automates AWS incident investigation from alert to root cause.

It maps affected services and dependencies, correlates operational signals, and tests likely causes using:

Teams receive an evidence-backed AWS root cause analysis containing:

Findings are delivered directly in Slack.

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AWS Root Cause Analysis Across Telemetry, Dependencies, and Changes

An AWS alarm identifies a symptom. Sherlocks investigates the surrounding system to determine what happened, which services were affected, and why.

Starting from an alert or production question, Sherlocks:

Evidence, not unexplained conclusions

Sherlocks clearly separates hypotheses from supporting evidence.

Each finding links to relevant:

Responders can verify the reasoning instead of relying on an unexplained AI answer.

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Investigate common AWS incidents

Sherlocks helps teams investigate:

Automated AWS Troubleshooting Across Services and Dependencies

AWS incidents rarely remain isolated to one resource.

A deployment might:

Sherlocks uses its Awareness Graph to connect these signals and reveal the causal chain.

Continuously updated system context

The Awareness Graph maps:

During an investigation, this topology helps Sherlocks move through:

Reported symptom → affected service → dependency → recent change → likely cause

Change correlation

Sherlocks correlates the incident window with:

This can reveal causes such as:

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Incident memory

Sherlocks preserves useful context from previous incidents, including:

Previous incident knowledge can inform new investigations and reduce repeated troubleshooting.

AWS Telemetry and Integration Coverage

Sherlocks investigates AWS infrastructure together with the application and operational systems around it.

AWS services

Telemetry

Kubernetes workloads on AWS

Observability

Code and delivery

Incident response

Sherlocks queries relevant telemetry when an investigation requires it.

This reduces the need for responders to manually search across:

Sherlocks’ infrastructure graph supports:

Every AWS root cause analysis can include:

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A Read-Only AI SRE for AWS

Sherlocks acts as an AI SRE for AWS incident investigation while engineers remain in control of remediation.

Least-privilege investigation

The Watson data agent uses read-only permissions.

It cannot:

It collects only the telemetry and metadata needed for investigation, such as:

Flexible deployment

Sherlocks can run:

Data is protected using:

Investigation and collaboration in Slack

Sherlocks delivers each investigation with:

Responders can:

Find the cause of your next AWS incident in minutes.

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