# Incident vs. bug: How to distinguish between these two (seemingly) related concepts

DevFeed: [Incident vs. bug: How to distinguish between these two (seemingly) related concepts](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/incident-vs-bug-how-to-distinguish-between-these-two-seemingly-related-concepts-11836.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/incident-vs-bug>)

Author: Luis Gonzalez

Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00Z

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>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [incident management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-management.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Software Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-testing.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.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>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [software-testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-testing.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to distinguish incidents from bugs, emphasizing urgency as the key difference. Incidents are unplanned disruptions that affect systems or services and require rapid response, while bugs are errors or unintended behavior that are often handled through normal development workflows.

## Source excerpt

The difference between and incident and a bug might seem insignificant--but it's an important distinction to make.