# The startup guide to sensible incident management

DevFeed: [The startup guide to sensible incident management](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-startup-guide-to-sensible-incident-management-12037.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/the-startup-guide-to-sensible-incident-management>)

Author: Chris Evans

Published: 2022-02-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

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

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.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>), [recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recovery.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [startup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/startup.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to establishing sensible incident management foundations at an early-stage startup. It recommends adopting simple defaults, treating interruptions to normal work as incidents, using only a small number of severity levels, and prioritizing transparency and speed of recovery over elaborate post-mortems.

## Source excerpt

A simple guide to help you bootstrap great incident management practices at your startup.