# Why more incidents is no bad thing

DevFeed: [Why more incidents is no bad thing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-more-incidents-is-no-bad-thing-12086.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/why-more-incidents-is-no-bad-thing>)

Author: Chris Evans

Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

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>)

Tags: [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>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [shift-left](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shift-left.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that organizations should not treat having fewer reported incidents as an automatic sign of better performance. A low incident count may indicate underreporting or hidden problems, while incidents can reveal systemic weaknesses. It advocates a healthy incident culture that encourages early reporting, makes failures visible, and uses them as opportunities for learning and improved incident management.

## Source excerpt

For a long time we've anchored ourselves to the notion that we should have fewer incidents, or none at all. It's hard to argue against -- why wouldn't we want to fewer things to go wrong?