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Overview

Assisted Debugging gives you a chat-based way to work with Metoro’s AI SRE layer. Instead of manually clicking across logs, metrics, traces, Kubernetes state, and recent changes, you can ask Metoro a question directly and have it gather the relevant context for you. This is useful when you want to:
  • Ask a production question in plain language
  • Investigate symptoms before you know the root cause
  • Gather debugging context quickly across multiple signals
  • Explore a service, cluster, or workload without building dashboards first
From anywhere in the platform, press g and then c to open Guardian Chat.

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Ways to open Guardian Chat

Keyboard Shortcut

From anywhere in Metoro, press g and then c to open Guardian Chat immediately.

Home Page

Open the home page and use the Guardian prompt surface to start a new conversation.

Interactive Chat

Navigate to Guardian → Interactive Chat to open the full chat experience directly.

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What you can ask

Assisted Debugging is best for exploratory questions such as:
  • What is the most frequent error log in my cluster?
  • Which service is using the most CPU right now?
  • Find the slowest service and tell me which endpoint is slowest.
  • Show me recent issues affecting a specific service.
  • Check whether a deployment correlates with the current errors.
Because Metoro brings its own telemetry layer, chat can work across logs, metrics, traces, profiling, Kubernetes state, deployments, and code context when GitHub is connected.

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What Guardian Chat can do

Logs

Ask Metoro to find relevant logs, error patterns, or the most common failure messages in your cluster or service.

Traces

Inspect traces, latency bottlenecks, and slow endpoints without manually jumping between trace screens.

Graphs

Ask Metoro to plot graphs and gather metric context while you investigate a problem.

Investigations

Investigate issues, deployments, alerts, and symptoms interactively until you reach a likely root cause.

Cluster Questions

Ask questions about your cluster, workloads, services, and infrastructure state in plain language.

Cross-Signal Debugging

Correlate logs, traces, metrics, Kubernetes state, and code context in one workflow.

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How to use it

1

Turn on AI SRE

Assisted Debugging requires AI SRE to be enabled for your account.
2

Open the chat surface

Open Guardian Chat using the g then c shortcut, from the home page, or from Guardian → Interactive Chat.
3

Ask a focused question

Ask a concrete question about a service, environment, alert, deployment, or symptom you are investigating.
4

Refine the investigation

Follow up with narrower questions to move from symptom to root cause, request more evidence, or ask Metoro to inspect a different signal.

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Returning to previous conversations

You can close the chat after asking questions and come back to it later.

Guardian Agents

Go to Guardian → Agents and use the Chat filter in the top filtering menu to find previous chat-based runs.

Previous Conversations

Open a new chat and use the previous conversations side panel to jump back into earlier chats.
Conversations persist after you close the chat, so you can resume an earlier debugging session instead of starting over.

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What makes it useful

  • It reduces context switching across observability tools and screens.
  • It can gather evidence from multiple telemetry types in one flow.
  • It helps you get to a likely root cause faster when you are still forming the investigation.
  • It works well alongside deployment verification, alert investigations, and autonomous issue detection.

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Best practices

  • Ask about a specific service, environment, deployment, or time window when possible.
  • Start broad if you are triaging, then narrow the follow-up questions quickly.
  • Connect GitHub if you want code-aware answers and code-change correlation.
  • Use AI alert investigations or autonomous issue detection when you want Metoro to investigate proactively rather than interactively.

AI SRE Overview

Understand how Assisted Debugging fits into Metoro’s AI SRE workflows.

Alert Investigations

Investigate firing alerts automatically with AI.

Autonomous Issue Detection

Detect and investigate production issues without a preconfigured alert.

GitHub Integration

Add code context to AI investigations and debugging workflows.