# Why you need an incident timeline

DevFeed: [Why you need an incident timeline](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-you-need-an-incident-timeline-12093.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/why-you-need-incident-timelines>)

Author: Martha Lambert

Published: 2022-09-05T00:00:00Z

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>), [audit trail](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/audit-trail.md>)

Tags: [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [audit-trail](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audit-trail.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>), [learn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learn.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>)

## AI overview

The article explains why accurate incident timelines help resilient teams learn from incidents and improve their response. It presents the timeline as a guide for debriefs, while emphasizing that the raw sequence of events and timestamps must remain an accurate audit trail.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to get the most from your incident timeline.