# Stack A Stack is a group of hardware / software (applications) related to where the incident happened. For example, a poor performance on a web site may have website, App Connectivity, Web Service, Database Service, Virtualization, Storage, Network, Load balancer, Security as a group (or Stack) where the problem could have happened any where. The stack allows to check at those layers where the problem has happened while providing holistic approach of overall solution. An example Stack where Application performance degraded was raised as incident. ![cfxOIA - Incident Stack](/files/-M1kWvb5vHsObA4z_Kix) ### Next Steps - Alerts --- # 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.cloudfabrix.io/cfxoia/user-guide/incidents/stack.md?ask= ``` 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.