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Runbooks for better incident management

An SRE's best friend, runbooks can help engineering teams stop putting out the same fires again and again.

Ash P.
Jul 16, 2021
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Why runbooks are useful

  1. Automated processes don't always protect against issues -- so software needs 10s to 100s of different activities actioned by skilled humans to keep the system rolling

  2. "30-40% of procedures require human judgement to resolve safely so that's still a bunch of run books won't go away - even if large parts of deployment are push-button processes."

  3. Prevents an issue like this: "I recently ran into a situation where I spent 6 hours understanding how something works that would have taken 20 minutes if the relevant information was stored somewhere."

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Ways that teams have set up their runbooks…

Read the rest of this archived post on my website:

https://www.cruform.com/2021/08/18/runbooks-for-better-incident-management/

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