Incident Response Workflow
Production incident response workflow with severity-based routing, war room coordination, incident commander assignment, customer communication, root cause analysis, and postmortem scheduling.
On-call rotation workflow with schedule creation, shift handoffs, override management, escalation policies, and fair rotation distribution.
Scheduler { # On-Call Scheduler
n1: circle label:"Start"
n2: rectangle label:"Load rotation schedule"
n3: rectangle label:"Determine current on-call"
n4: rectangle label:"Complete handoff"
n5: circle label:"End"
n1.handle(right) -> n2.handle(left)
n2.handle(right) -> n3.handle(left)
n3.handle(bottom) -> Handoff.n6.handle(top) [label="Rotation due"]
n4.handle(right) -> n5.handle(left)
}
Handoff { # Handoff Process
n6: rectangle label:"Notify outgoing engineer"
n7: rectangle label:"Notify incoming engineer"
n8: diamond label:"Handoff acknowledged?"
n9: rectangle label:"Transfer pager access"
n10: rectangle label:"Escalate to manager"
n11: rectangle label:"Update PagerDuty schedule"
n6.handle(right) -> n7.handle(left)
n7.handle(right) -> n8.handle(left)
n8.handle(right) -> n9.handle(left) [label="Yes"]
n8.handle(bottom) -> n10.handle(top) [label="No"]
n9.handle(right) -> n11.handle(left)
n10.handle(right) -> n9.handle(top)
n11.handle(bottom) -> Alerting.n12.handle(top) [label="Active"]
}
Alerting { # Alert Routing
n12: rectangle label:"Receive incoming alert"
n13: diamond label:"Severity level?"
n14: rectangle label:"Page on-call immediately"
n15: rectangle label:"Send Slack notification"
n16: rectangle label:"Queue for review"
n17: diamond label:"Acknowledged in 5 min?"
n18: rectangle label:"Escalate to backup"
n19: rectangle label:"Log acknowledgment"
n12.handle(right) -> n13.handle(left)
n13.handle(right) -> n14.handle(left) [label="Critical"]
n13.handle(bottom) -> n15.handle(top) [label="Warning"]
n13.handle(left) -> n16.handle(top) [label="Info"]
n14.handle(right) -> n17.handle(left)
n15.handle(right) -> n19.handle(left)
n16.handle(right) -> n19.handle(top)
n17.handle(right) -> n19.handle(left) [label="Yes"]
n17.handle(bottom) -> n18.handle(top) [label="No"]
n18.handle(right) -> n17.handle(top)
n19.handle(top) -> Scheduler.n4.handle(bottom) [label="Handled"]
}
Production incident response workflow with severity-based routing, war room coordination, incident commander assignment, customer communication, root cause analysis, and postmortem scheduling.
Monitoring and alerting workflow with metric collection, threshold evaluation, alert routing, escalation policies, and incident creation.
Quarterly user access review workflow with manager certification, separation of duties validation, remediation tracking, and compliance reporting for audit purposes.
Backup and restore workflow with scheduled backups, offsite replication, retention policy enforcement, restore testing, and RTO/RPO validation.
SSL/TLS certificate renewal workflow with expiration monitoring, certificate request by type (DV/OV/EV), domain validation, deployment to load balancers, and health check verification with rollback.
Chaos engineering workflow with hypothesis definition, steady-state monitoring, controlled fault injection, blast radius limitation, and resilience validation.