Actions

We believe there are two types of action you create during an incident – those that need doing now, and those that should be followed-up after an incident has been closed.

Actions that need doing now might be:

• Reboot that server
• Send some comms to an affected customer

While follow-ups could be:

• Improve test coverage of a given codepath
• Do some investment to make a service more stable

You can learn more about follow-ups here.

How do I create actions?

There’s two ways you can do this:

1. React with the :boom: emoji to any Slack message within the incident channel

You can then either assign this action to yourself, or to someone else and they’ll be notified.

2. Use the command /inc action, to create new actions and post any open actions within the channel

What can I do with actions?

After you’ve assigned actions to either yourself or someone else, you can:

• Edit the action
• Mark it as completed
• Reassign it to yourself
• Unassign it from a team member

What if I want to do these actions after an incident?

If you want to complete these actions after an incident, they will become follow-ups and can even be exported to issue trackers such as Jira, Linear, and many more.

When you go to mark the incident as resolved, any uncompleted actions will appear in the modal, and you’ll be able to convert these to follow-ups.

You can also use the :fast_forward: emoji on any Slack message to convert it to a follow-up too!

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