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  1. Incidents Page

Incidents Details

Get more details of an incident

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An incident represents an issue that needs to be addressed and resolved. Incidents trigger on services, and a service’s escalation policy prompts notifications to go out to on-call responders to remediate the issue.

Incident Statuses

Incident Details Page

To view the Incident Details Page, select the Team from the team picker on the top -> Navigate to the Dashboard or the Incidents page from the sidebar and open incidents.

Click on any Incident from the Incident List to view the Incident Details page.

The Incident Details page has many components:

Component
Description

Incident ID

A unique ID for the incident

Note: To copy this Incident URL to the clipboard, use the Copy button on the right

Incident Message

The displayed title of the incident

Incident Watchers

Incident Tags

Tags are key-value pairs, added to an incident.

They allow you to quickly see relevant information, such as severity or environment, for a particular incident rather than needing to review all of the related alerts

Incident Description

Incident Description i.e. the alert information along with images and links sent by the Alert Source

Notes

Incident Notes enable you to add important notes for you and your team that can help mitigate an incident faster

Runbooks

Tasks

To add your tasks, click on the Add Task button -> Add your Task -> Click on Add Task again, to save

Once added, you can Edit/Update and Delete the Task.

Acknowledge

To mark an incident as Acknowledged

Reassign

To reassign an Incident to another User, Squad or an Escalation Policy

Resolve

If Resolution Reason is marked mandatory for an organisation, incident cannot be resolved without providing a reason. Otherwise, user can simply go ahead and mark incident as resolved.

Actions

Incident Details

Incident Details displays:

1. When the incident was created in Squadcast 2. Alert Source via which the incident was created 3. Affected Service for which the incident was created 4. Elapsed time since the incident got created in Squadcast

Responsiveness

Communication Channels

Communication Channels help you add video calls, chatops and external links to an incident. Additionally, you can create a dedicated Slack Channel for an incident using the Communications Card.

To add a Communication Channel, Click on +Add Link -> Select the type of channel you want to add -> Add the link and Text to Display for your Communication Channel -> Click on Save

Any activity in the Communications Card, gets reflected on the Activity Timeline of the incident.

Responders

Responders will display the list of all Users, Squads or Escalation Policies that were involved during the lifecycle of the incident. Select Notification Logs to open up logs of all the notifications generated for the incident

Activity Timeline

Activity Timeline will indicate the list of all activities performed on this incident in reverse chronological order

Note: Activity Timeline will show incident reassignment, mentioning both the assigned and assignee.

SLO Details

You can select the affected SLO for an incident. It will give you details on the affected SLO, SLIs and the Error Budget.

Update Status Page

Update Status Page is used to update your Status Page for this incident

Create Postmortem

Deduped Events

If the incident has deduplicated events, they will be listed under Deduped events.

By clicking on Deduped events, you will be able to see the following:

1. Number of deduplicated events 2. Event Timestamp 3. Message and Payload of the event

View Payload

To view your latest incoming payload.

Note: The search option under payload is not a free search, we have to search by JSON format, for example, type in payload.annotations to get annotations.

We also have an option for click-to search, wherein you can click on the keys in the payload to get their required values.

Understanding Resolution Reason

This feature will be available for organisations in the Premium and Enterprise pricing plan.

Enabling Resolution Reason requirement for incident resolution in an organisation would be the first step before users can start adding reasons before resolving incidents on a mandatory basis.

Navigate to Settings > Feature Settings > Enable / Disable Resolution Reason

  • Enabling Resolution Reason would make it mandatory in order to resolve an incident

  • Disabling Resolution Reason would make it optional in order to resolve an incident

Entering reason for resolution while resolving an incident would essentially be a modal like below.

Once resolution reason is added for an incident, it appears in two places.

  1. In the Notes section, as a pinned Note

  1. In the Activity Timeline along with the resolution log

For auto-resolved incidents, the resolution reason would automatically get added as:

Incident marked as Automatically Resolved by <alert source name>.

Incident Details Field Limitations

There are certain character limitations for the Incident Message and Incident Description fields. The same is indicated below.

Incident Field
Character Limit

Incident Message

250

Incident Description

15000

Incident Watchers can choose to receive notifications for all the updates of an Incident. This allows any user/stakeholder to act as an observer of the incident. You can customize your subscription to the incident by choosing between the watch options. Know more about Incident Watchers .

are a “how-to” guide for completing a commonly repeated task or procedure while working on a critical incident.

Note: Simple Runbooks will be available for accounts in the .

To attach and reference runbooks to your incident, click on the Attach Runbooks button -> Check the runbook you wish to attach -> Click Add Runbook

are instructions or to-dos for other team members or even follow-up tasks for an incident.

Note: Tasks will be available for accounts in the .

Actions are used to create JIRA tickets or take actions via

Note: Hover over the created field to view the exact Date and Time of the creation of the incident.

Responsiveness displays: 1. Created - Time elapsed since the creation of the incident 2. Latest Ack - Time elapsed since the latest Acknowledgement of the incident. Will change every time the incident is reassigned 3. First Ack - Time elapsed since the first Acknowledgement of the incident 4. Resolution Time - Time elapsed from creation to the resolution of the incident

Once added, you can Edit/Update the Communication Channel.

Note: Downloading Activity Timeline will be available for accounts in the .

Additionally, you can mark the Incident as False Positive from here as well.

Create Postmortem will let you start/update the Postmortem for the incident

Clicking on any of the deduplicated events will display all the information that is sent for that alert from the monitoring tool, including the Deduplication Reason (which Deduplication Rule got executed).

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Enabling and disabling Resolution Reason
Resolution Reason modal
Incident Statuses in Squadcast
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Incident Details Page in Squadcast