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Microsoft Sentinel
A scalable, cloud-native solution for security information event management and security orchestration automated response. Previously known as Azure Sentinel.
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Though incidents are usually generated from alerts, it is possible to generate incidents without any alerts. An incident can be generated without an alert, but an alert cannot be generated without an incident. There is a script here that shows how to create an incident without an alert.
One reason to create an incident without an alert would be to store an incident from an external source that hasn't been integrated with Azure Sentinel yet. (There is a blog post here that discusses this concept in detail.)