# Do I need an incident debrief?

DevFeed: [Do I need an incident debrief?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/do-i-need-an-incident-debrief-11759.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/do-i-need-an-incident-debrief>)

Author: Chris Evans

Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [incident management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-management.md>), [Incident response](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-response.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces incident debriefs, also known as post mortems or incident analysis, and examines when they are worth the time and cost. It explains that debriefs can help organizations learn from incidents, while incident response tools can reduce the preparation overhead.

## Source excerpt

The dust has settled after your efforts to get things back on track during your last incident, and everything's once again working as it should. Time to get back to work? Possibly, but you might want to pause and take the time to look more deeply at what happened, and whether it's worth seeking out and socialising learnings more widely.