# Prioritizing your incident classification process for faster response times

DevFeed: [Prioritizing your incident classification process for faster response times](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/prioritizing-your-incident-classification-process-for-faster-response-times-11966.md>)

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

Author: Luis Gonzalez

Published: 2023-01-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Incident response](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-response.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.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>), [scope](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scope.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how incident classification improves incident response in DevOps. It describes classifying incidents by type, severity, and affected category so teams can prioritize responses, assign an appropriate structure, save time, and operate more efficiently.

## Source excerpt

Understanding how an incident should be classified can seem complicated, but we've got you covered. Read to learn how the incident classification process works.