name: cx-cases
description: >
Triage and manage Coralogix Cases with the cx cases CLI — e.g. acknowledge,
assign, resolve, or re-prioritize a case, or inspect its event timeline or
notification deliveries.
metadata:
version: "0.1.0"
Cases Management Skill
A Case groups related alert events into one investigation unit with a status, priority, category, and assignee. Use this skill to inspect cases and drive them through their lifecycle (active → acknowledged → resolved → closed).
CLI Commands
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
cx cases get <id> |
Get a single case by ID |
cx cases update <id> [--title] [--resolution-reason] |
Update mutable fields |
cx cases comment <id> --text <text> |
Add a comment to the case timeline |
cx cases assign <id> --user <email> |
Assign a case (email, or raw user ID) |
cx cases unassign <id> |
Remove the assignee |
cx cases acknowledge <id> |
Acknowledge (signals you're working it; stops re-notification) |
cx cases unacknowledge <id> |
Remove the acknowledgment |
cx cases resolve <id> --reason <text> |
Resolve a case (irreversible — see below) |
cx cases close <id> |
Close a case (terminal) |
cx cases set-priority <id> --priority <P1..P5> |
Override the computed priority |
cx cases clear-priority <id> |
Remove a priority override |
cx cases events list <case-id> |
Event timeline (status changes, comments, assignments) |
cx cases events get <event-id> |
A single event — drill in, e.g. to expand a comment thread |
cx cases notifications <case-id> [<case-id> ...] |
Notification deliveries (connector, status, time) |
Case Lifecycle
PENDING_ACTIVATION ──► ACTIVE ◄────────► ACKNOWLEDGED
│ ╲ │ ╲
│ ╲ │ ╲
▼ ╲ ▼ ╲
CLOSED ╲──► RESOLVED ◄─── (from ACK)
│
▼
CLOSED (terminal)
| From state | Allowed transitions | Notes |
|---|---|---|
PENDING_ACTIVATION |
→ ACTIVE |
System-driven activation; not user-controllable |
ACTIVE |
→ ACKNOWLEDGED, RESOLVED, CLOSED |
Ack is optional; for a false alarm, close directly (skip resolve) |
ACKNOWLEDGED |
→ ACTIVE, RESOLVED, CLOSED |
The only "back" transition: unacknowledge returns it to ACTIVE |
RESOLVED |
→ CLOSED only |
Irreversible — cannot reopen to ACTIVE/ACKNOWLEDGED |
CLOSED |
(none) | Terminal |
Categories: AVAILABILITY or SECURITY. Priorities: P1 (highest) → P5.
Triage Workflow
- Inspect —
cx cases get <id>. The payload includesgroupings,labels,impactedEntities,kpiBreaches,aiSummary, and bothpriorityDetails.system(computed) andpriorityDetails.override(user-set). - Investigate — Pull the underlying telemetry by querying the alert's DataPrime / PromQL to find root cause before acting.
Optionally export the investigation via
cx ollyor pull the case'simpactedEntities/groupingsto confirm the impact. See thecx-telemetry-queryingskill. - Claim —
cx cases assign <id> --user you@example.comthencx cases acknowledge <id>. - Record findings —
cx cases comment <id> --text "<note>"to leave investigation notes on the timeline (root cause, links, next steps) as you go. Comments appear ascommentevents incx cases events list. - Resolve or close — see below.
- Re-prioritize if impact differs from the computed value —
cx cases set-priority <id> --priority P1/clear-priority. Only possible while the case is still open; priority cannot be overridden once a case isRESOLVEDorCLOSED.
Resolving
Resolution is irreversible (a RESOLVED case can only move to CLOSED), so
the CLI requires both a reason and a confirmation:
- Pass
--reason "<text>"— a one-line postmortem (root cause, what fixed it, follow-up) visible to teammates in the timeline. Use--no-reasononly when a reason genuinely doesn't apply. - In agent / non-interactive mode, also pass
--yes; without it the command refuses and must be handed to the user to run interactively.
If uncertain, stay in ACKNOWLEDGED (reversible via unacknowledge) until
confident. For non-resolution edits (title, post-hoc postmortem link), use
cx cases update.
Bulk Operations
There are no bulk endpoints. To act on many cases, pipe IDs through a loop, e.g.
... | jq -r '.[].id' | xargs -I {} cx cases acknowledge {}.
Key Principles
- Use emails, never user IDs — for
assign --userand in all output. resolveis irreversible andcloseis terminal — confirm before resolving; for false alarmsclosefromACTIVEdirectly.- Always supply a resolution reason unless
--no-reasontruly applies. P1-style shorthand is accepted anywhere a priority/status/category is expected.- Multi-profile fan-out with
-p <profile>(repeatable) for cross-environment triage.
References
- Case analytics:
references/case-analytics.md - Single case investigation:
references/single-case.md
Related Skills
cx-alerts— the alert definitions behind the events grouped into a case.cx-telemetry-querying— pivot from a case's impacted entities into logs/spans/metrics.