Alert received from monitoring system or manual incident report.
When NOT to use
For planned maintenance or scheduled events.
Instructions
Assess severity (low/medium/high/critical)
Identify affected services and users
Estimate impact scope and duration
Check if runbook exists
Page on-call engineer if critical
Post initial status update
Example
Alert: API response time > 5s. Triage: high severity, 15% of users affected, may need database scaling.
1---2name: incident-triage3description: Incident Triage4---5# Incident Triage67## When to activate8Alert received from monitoring system or manual incident report.910## When NOT to use11For planned maintenance or scheduled events.1213## Instructions141. Assess severity (low/medium/high/critical)152. Identify affected services and users163. Estimate impact scope and duration174. Check if runbook exists185. Page on-call engineer if critical196. Post initial status update2021## Example22Alert: API response time > 5s. Triage: high severity, 15% of users affected, may need database scaling.
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