Automated Diagnosis Isn’t Automated Understanding: What Postmortems Teach Us About Building Trustworthy Incident AI

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Anyone who’s ever been on an on-call rotation knows the feeling. A dashboard lights up green to red across a dozen services, an incident channel starts filling with theories and somewhere in that noise is one root cause hiding behind six symptoms that all look equally suspicious. Fixing the problem is rarely the hard part. Figuring out what the problem actually is- that’s where the time is spent. So, when yet another vendor pitch promises that AI has solved this (point a model at your telemetry and it tells you what broke), part of me wants to believe it. Honestly, some of that promise is real. However, the more time you spend around incident response, the easier it gets to spot claims that skip past the hardest part of the job. Finding symptoms is easy; understanding causes is not. This is just my opinion on where that gap actually sits, and what it would really take to close it. The Gap Between Correlation and Diagnosis Look closely at what most ‘AI-driven root cause analysis’ tools actually do, and a pattern starts to show up. They’re very good at telling you that 47 alerts are all part of the same problem. They’re much less reliable at telling you what that problem actually is. Alert correlation, topology mapping, and noise reduction are genuinely useful capabilities that meaningfully reduce the time an engineer spends on triaging. However, grouping related symptoms isn’t the same thing as identifying a cause. That distinction isn’t just semantics. It’s the difference between an engineer opening an incident channel to “here are the 12 things that fired around the same …

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