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DatadogNancy Zhu, Evan Marcantonio, Nicole Parisi, Chris Miller4 min readintro

From alert to resolution: Manage incidents with Bits Chat in Slack

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Summary

Datadog’s Bits Chat adds a natural‑language interface to Slack, letting responders start investigations, get root‑cause analysis, generate code fixes, and close incidents without leaving the channel. The post walks through a sample e‑commerce outage to show the end‑to‑end workflow.

  • Trigger an investigation directly in Slack with `@Datadog investigate`, avoiding tool switching.
  • Bits Investigation returns root‑cause hypotheses and telemetry data within the same channel.
  • Bits Remediation can generate a pull request via Bits Code and create a dedicated code channel in Slack.
  • After resolution, Bits can close the incident and auto‑generate a postmortem notebook from the gathered context.

Teams that already use Slack and Datadog can reduce context‑switching and speed up incident resolution by handling the whole workflow in chat.

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