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title: Investigating Incidents
slug: neurons-for-itsm/admin-user-help/enu/latest/investigating-incidents
createdAt: 2026-07-14T19:16:34.218Z
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The goal of Service Desk is to restore normal service at the initial point of contact with the incident requester. An incident resolved at the initial point of contact is called first call resolution.

If you resolve the incident at the initial point of contact, on the incident form, select **First Call Resolution** under the **Resolution** tab of the **Incident** form.

The application escalates incidents that are not successfully resolved by Service Desk to a second or even third tier of support (usually a third-party vendor).

During the investigation and diagnosis phase, you can do the following:

- [Working With Attachments and URLs](docId\:DwYg6stRtAl1ZdOaEcfjZ)
- [Creating an Activity History Item](docId\:dOLnQxPLSR_CCl3-udX4k)
- [Creating a Task](docId\:M2_gH01jtOGXMkya4H7Xj)
- [Creating a Change Request](docId\:MDrXfMLfHaRSkGe6zBd0y)
- [Watching Escalations](docId\:PzVzvb2y1uz0P2hfwFGFi)
- [Modifying an Incident](docId\:aKRuODYqj2wVb_C6AyOLg)
- [Adding a Journal Entry to a Business Object](docId\:udrP_CH-nPqbHWhrFibsV)
- [Viewing a CI map](docId\:AhauaMPATmiW4EfHUd6ws)
- [Linking Incidents](docId:52HynL6m1otj253ylUDn7)
- [Using Related Items and Object Matching](docId\:lHJTw6BOn4Y-z3jCzkdOk)
- [Viewing a Workflow Instance](docId\:uYae8z1XCnBSXJKMAo7E9)
- [Resolving Incidents](docId:1ofNHHbQv0Aojf7RQT_v1)