# Investigate operational issues in your environment
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You can create investigations in several ways depending on your workflow and the source of the issue you're investigating. Once an investigation is active, you can review AI-generated suggestions, accept or discard findings, and take remediation actions through automated runbooks.

The following procedures show you how to start investigations from different entry points and how to work with active investigations:

**Contents**
+ [Create an investigation](Investigations-CreateInvestigation.md)
  + [Create an investigation from Amazon Q chat](Investigations-CreateInvestigation.md#Investigations-CreateInvestigation-QChat)
  + [Create an investigation from a CloudWatch alarm action](Investigations-CreateInvestigation.md#Investigations-CreateInvestigation-AlarmAction)
+ [Create an investigation from a CloudWatch Application Signals Service Level Objective (SLO)](Investigations-CreateInvestigation-SLO.md)
+ [View and continue an open investigation](Investigations-Continue.md)
+ [Reviewing and executing suggested runbook remediations for CloudWatch investigations](suggested-investigation-actions.md)
+ [Manage your current investigations](Investigations-Manage.md)
+ [Restart an archived investigation](Investigations-Restart.md)