What makes an engineering team? Communication, collaboration, process, order, and common goals. Otherwise, they would just be a bunch of engineers. The same is true of their tools. Connectivity and process turn a bunch of tools into a DevOps toolchain. If you need a DevOp toolchain, you can use it to easily build an incident response process.
System outages happen to the best of us. Communicating with your customers and other stakeholders effectively during downtimes is vital to maintaining a solid relationship with them. When a system outage occurs, technical teams are tasked with swiftly locating the cause and resolving the issue, while communications teams are tasked with notifying stakeholders and customers about the outage to maintain transparency.
When a service is down, a system is failing, or a security issue is in the midst of occurring, organizations need a solid incident response process to get up and running again. Incident response isn't just for high severity, lights out incidents either; if you've rebooted your computer to fix a problem, you've been an incident responder yourself! Incidents happen, and any successful organization knows that instead of pretending that one day nothing will ever go wrong, it's far more useful to develop a comprehensive operational response plan. And to do so, you need to know what incident response is! Let's get into it.