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Incident Communication

Status communication model, severity updates, and postmortem expectations.


Communication channels

  • Public status page for live state and active incidents
  • Email subscriptions for incident and maintenance updates
  • Postmortem references for high-impact incidents

Incident lifecycle

  1. investigating
  2. identified
  3. monitoring
  4. resolved

Severity guidance

  • minor: limited scope, low customer impact
  • major: broad impact or significant degradation
  • critical: severe service interruption

Update cadence

  • Initial update as quickly as possible after detection.
  • Follow-up updates while impact persists.
  • Resolution update when metrics recover.
  • Postmortem summary for impactful incidents.

Status API fields

The public status summary includes:

  • incidents: recent incidents with timeline updates
  • subscriptionChannels: available channels for incident communication

Use these fields to mirror the public status model in your own dashboards.