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Production incident response workflow with severity-based routing, war room coordination, incident commander assignment, customer communication, root cause analysis, and postmortem scheduling.

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Monitoring { # Monitoring System
n1: circle label:"Start"
n2: rectangle label:"Alert triggered"
n3: rectangle label:"Page on-call responder"
n4: rectangle label:"Log incident timeline"
n5: circle label:"End"
n1.handle(right) -> n2.handle(left)
n2.handle(bottom) -> OnCall.n6.handle(top) [label="SEV-1 Alert"]
n3.handle(bottom) -> OnCall.n6.handle(top) [label="Paged"]
n4.handle(right) -> n5.handle(left)
}
OnCall { # On-Call Responder
n6: rectangle label:"Acknowledge incident"
n7: rectangle label:"Assess severity and impact"
n8: diamond label:"Severity level?"
n9: rectangle label:"Declare major incident"
n10: rectangle label:"Begin troubleshooting"
n11: rectangle label:"Escalate to team lead"
n6.handle(right) -> n7.handle(left)
n7.handle(right) -> n8.handle(left)
n8.handle(right) -> n9.handle(left) [label="SEV-1/2"]
n8.handle(bottom) -> n10.handle(top) [label="SEV-3/4"]
n9.handle(bottom) -> IncidentCommand.n12.handle(top) [label="Open bridge"]
n10.handle(bottom) -> Resolution.n18.handle(top) [label="Investigate"]
n11.handle(bottom) -> IncidentCommand.n12.handle(top) [label="Needs help"]
}
IncidentCommand { # Incident Command
n12: rectangle label:"Open war room bridge"
n13: rectangle label:"Assign incident commander"
n14: rectangle label:"Coordinate response teams"
n15: rectangle label:"Communicate status updates"
n16: diamond label:"Customer impact?"
n17: rectangle label:"Notify customer success"
n12.handle(right) -> n13.handle(left)
n13.handle(right) -> n14.handle(left)
n14.handle(right) -> n15.handle(left)
n15.handle(right) -> n16.handle(left)
n16.handle(right) -> n17.handle(left) [label="Yes"]
n16.handle(bottom) -> Resolution.n18.handle(top) [label="No"]
n17.handle(bottom) -> Resolution.n18.handle(top) [label="Notified"]
}
Resolution { # Resolution
n18: rectangle label:"Identify root cause"
n19: rectangle label:"Implement fix"
n20: diamond label:"Issue resolved?"
n21: rectangle label:"Verify recovery"
n22: rectangle label:"Close incident"
n23: rectangle label:"Schedule postmortem"
n18.handle(right) -> n19.handle(left)
n19.handle(right) -> n20.handle(left)
n20.handle(right) -> n21.handle(left) [label="Yes"]
n20.handle(bottom) -> n18.handle(bottom) [label="No - Continue"]
n21.handle(right) -> n22.handle(left)
n22.handle(right) -> n23.handle(left)
n23.handle(top) -> Monitoring.n4.handle(bottom) [label="Complete"]
}

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