Operational Context Layer — Docs

The graph that tells you what your incident touches.

The Context Layer is a per-tenant graph of your operations — entities and the relationships between them — built read-only from the telemetry you already send. It exists to make investigations faster: use the graph to narrow the search, the underlying telemetry to confirm. Every endpoint is gated behind the context:read scope.

Entities and explainable edges. Nothing to install.

The context engine runs on a schedule and derives the graph from traces, logs, monitors, incidents, on-call, assets, and your audit log. You send telemetry the way you already do; the graph builds itself and stays current.

ENTITIES

Operational objects

service · host · incident · case · asset · identity · on-call person · AI agent · IOC · change · monitor.

EDGES

Explainable relationships

calls · runs_on · impacts · groups · owns · responsible_for · changed · matched. Every edge carries a confidence, a recency, and evidence — a deep-link into the exact trace, log, incident, or audit record that proves it. No black-box inference.

The API

Four read endpoints. Resolve, walk, summarize.

All require a token with the context:read scope. The org is always taken from the token — clients never pass an org id.

GET /api/v1/context/lookup?type=service&key=api.example.com

Resolve a name to an entity id so you can walk its graph.

curl "https://api.24observe.com/api/v1/context/lookup?type=service&key=api.example.com" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer obs_<your_token>"
# → { "entity": { "id": 481, "type": "service", "canonicalKey": "api.example.com", ... } }

GET /api/v1/context/entity/{id}/neighborhood?types=calls,impacts,matched

One hop out from any entity, ranked by edge strength + recency. Filter by edge type.

curl "https://api.24observe.com/api/v1/context/entity/481/neighborhood" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer obs_<your_token>"
# → { "entityId": 481, "edges": [
#      { "edgeType": "impacts", "direction": "in",
#        "neighbor": { "type": "incident", "canonicalKey": "inc-91", ... },
#        "confidence": 1, "strength": 4,
#        "evidence": { "kind": "incident", "deepLink": "/api/v1/incidents/91" } }, ... ] }

GET /api/v1/context/incident/{incidentKey}/summary

The wedge: blast-radius + owners + recent changes for an incident, every item evidence-linked.

curl "https://api.24observe.com/api/v1/context/incident/inc-91/summary" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer obs_<your_token>"
# → { "incident": { ... },
#      "impacted":      [ { "neighbor": { "canonicalKey": "api.example.com" }, "evidence": {...} } ],
#      "owners":        [ { "owner": "alice@example.com", "via": "responsible_for" } ],
#      "recentChanges": [ { "change": "UPDATE_MONITOR", "evidence": { "kind": "audit" } } ] }

GET /api/v1/context/entity/{id}

Fetch a single entity by id (type, canonical key, display name, attrs, first/last seen).

curl "https://api.24observe.com/api/v1/context/entity/481" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer obs_<your_token>"

The same graph, as MCP tools.