# Overview

Cleric is an AI SRE that investigates production issues. When alerts fire or you need to investigate problems, Cleric queries logs, metrics, and system state to identify root causes and recommend solutions.

### What Cleric Does

Cleric connects to your existing observability stack and performs the same investigation steps your engineers would. Cleric can be configured to:

1. **Automatically investigate alerts**: Configure triggers that route matching Slack alerts to the right agent
2. **On-demand investigation**: Investigate production issues when prompted, regardless of alert status

For every investigation, Cleric:

* **Collects evidence**: Uses tools like kubectl, Datadog APIs, Prometheus queries, and source code to collect relevant data
* **Conducts root cause analyses**: Correlates its findings across logs, metrics, and infrastructure changes
* **Communicates clearly**: Delivers findings with actionable recommendations and next steps

### Next Steps

* [Concepts](/meet-cleric/concepts.md) - Understand core terminology
* [How Investigations Work](/investigation/how-investigations-work.md) - See what Cleric does during an investigation
* [Supported Integrations](/integrations/supported-integrations.md) - Browse available integrations
* [Security & Data Privacy](/security/security-data-privacy.md) - Review security policies


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.cleric.ai/meet-cleric/readme.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.