SRE Incident Response Playbook Cheat Sheet

Status updates, coordination, and postmortems

Last Updated: November 21, 2025

Focus Areas

Focus
Notify impacted teams within minutes using status pages and chat
Capture timeline and root cause in the postmortem template

Commands & Queries

statuspage update incident --status monitoring
Publish public updates
opsgenie ack --incident-id 1234
Acknowledge Opsgenie alerts
git checkout postmortems && touch 2024-incident.md
Record the postmortem

Summary

Keep stakeholders informed, track mitigation vs. resolution steps, and write a blameless postmortem each time.

💡 Pro Tip: Document every update on the status page and tag owners in incident channels.
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