# Sitrep: An Open-Source AI Incident Copilot > Source: > Published: 2026-07-30 16:28:47+00:00 # Sitrep: An Open-Source AI Incident Copilot The real kicker is how it integrates with observability tools. It ships with Grafana support out of the box, so the agent can both reference what it sees visually and validate it against actual logs and traces. That means no blind trust—it confirms whether that error rate jump is real or a rendering glitch. To keep from drowning in duplicate frames, it uses a tile-based approach with a hamming distance threshold, so you don't burn tokens on near-identical screenshots every few seconds. Some smart touches: a blackout mode when you need to pause mid-incident without losing state, a cost dashboard so you can see what each query runs you, and model toggles to dial in cost or accuracy. Since it's open-source, you can dig into the code and tweak the frame-sampling logic or add your own integrations without waiting for a vendor to ship it. For anyone on call regularly, this is a practical tool. It's less about replacing your existing observability stack and more about giving you a real-time assistant that doesn't need voice channels or back-and-forth Slack threads. The vision-as-context approach is still experimental in incident response, but I've found it surprisingly useful for that "what did I just see?" moment during a postmortem. The repo is up if you want to kick the tires—plenty of room to shape it for your own workflow. [Next AI Economic Impact: Why Labor Value Persists →](/en/threads/4311/) ## All Replies （4） [@Sam46](/en/users/Sam46/)That's wild. Did it catch any edge cases you might have glossed over?