Skip to main content
Chat with Phoebe to ask questions while debugging, responding to an incident, or doing proactive checks. Phoebe translates your natural language question into targeted queries across your connected data sources (logs, traces, metrics, code, and more) and synthesises the results.

​
Prerequisites

Chat requires at least one data integration configured:

​
When to use chat

Incident debugging Use Phoebe as an assistant when investigating a specific issue — explore hypotheses, find supporting evidence, and narrow down root causes. Health checks Proactively spot regressions or abnormal patterns before they escalate — useful for periodic monitoring.
See Query Guide for inspiration on what to ask.

​
Follow-up questions

The first response is often just the beginning. After an investigation completes - whether triggered by an alert or a search query - you can continue the conversation with Phoebe to drill deeper, adjust scope, or take action. Phoebe remembers and builds on the context from earlier messages and results.
multi-turn investigation
Drill into findings Start broad, then narrow down based on what Phoebe surfaces.
  • “Show me the logs that show connection timeouts.”
  • “What changed in that service recently?”
  • “Did we have traffic during the time when those errors spiked?”
Adjust or correct scope Guide Phoebe to a different service, time window, or metric - or correct course if it’s looking in the wrong place.
  • “Check the payment service instead for logs containing ‘connection refused’ message”
  • “What about the EU region?”
Take action Move from diagnosis to resolution.
  • “Generate a PR to fix the logging level”
  • “Draft a summary for the incident channel”

​
How to chat

Option 1: Investigations UI Go to the Investigations UI and enter your question. Results include a detailed breakdown of Phoebe’s reasoning process, sub-agents used, and specific queries run. Option 2: Slack Ask Phoebe in any Slack channel classified as Other (e.g. #phoebe-chat).
  1. Add @Phoebe Slack app to the channel
  2. When prompted, classify the channel as Other
  3. Ask your question by mentioning @Phoebe
Slack responses show a summary with a link to the Investigations UI for full details.