# Introducing Incident Types

DevFeed: [Introducing Incident Types](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-incident-types-11835.md>)

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

Author: Martha Lambert

Published: 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Incident response](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-response.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [experiments](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/experiments.md>)

Tags: [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [data-protection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-protection.md>), [experiment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiment.md>), [growth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/growth.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>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

Incident.io introduces incident types, conditional fields, and roles to tailor incident response to different situations. Teams can configure distinct workflows, fields, roles, and privacy defaults for production, security, experiment, and other incident types.

## Source excerpt

Use incident types to optimise your incident response for the situation at hand, and gain insights into incidents sliced across your organization.