Incident Runbook Templates

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version: 4.1.0-fractal
name: incident-runbook-templates
description: Create structured incident response runbooks with step-by-step procedures, escalation paths, and recovery actions. Use when building runbooks, responding to incidents, or establishing incident response procedures.
---

# Incident Runbook Templates

Production-ready templates for incident response runbooks covering detection, triage, mitigation, resolution, and communication.

## Do not use this skill when

- The task is unrelated to incident runbook templates
- You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

## Instructions

- Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
- Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
- Provide actionable steps and verification.
- If detailed examples are required, open `resources/implementation-playbook.md`.

## Use this skill when

- Creating incident response procedures
- Building service-specific runbooks
- Establishing escalation paths
- Documenting recovery procedures
- Responding to active incidents
- Onboarding on-call engineers

## Core Concepts

## 🧠 Knowledge Modules (Fractal Skills)

### 1. [1. Incident Severity Levels](./sub-skills/1-incident-severity-levels.md)
### 2. [2. Runbook Structure](./sub-skills/2-runbook-structure.md)
### 3. [Template 1: Service Outage Runbook](./sub-skills/template-1-service-outage-runbook.md)
### 4. [Alerts](./sub-skills/alerts.md)
### 5. [Dashboards](./sub-skills/dashboards.md)
### 6. [1. Assess Scope](./sub-skills/1-assess-scope.md)
### 7. [2. Quick Health Checks](./sub-skills/2-quick-health-checks.md)
### 8. [3. Initial Classification](./sub-skills/3-initial-classification.md)
### 9. [4.1 Service Completely Down](./sub-skills/41-service-completely-down.md)
### 10. [4.2 High Latency](./sub-skills/42-high-latency.md)
### 11. [4.3 Partial Failures (Specific Errors)](./sub-skills/43-partial-failures-specific-errors.md)
### 12. [4.4 Traffic Surge](./sub-skills/44-traffic-surge.md)
### 13. [Initial Notification (Internal)](./sub-skills/initial-notification-internal.md)
### 14. [Status Update](./sub-skills/status-update.md)
### 15. [Resolution Notification](./sub-skills/resolution-notification.md)
### 16. [Template 2: Database Incident Runbook](./sub-skills/template-2-database-incident-runbook.md)
### 17. [Do's](./sub-skills/dos.md)
### 18. [Don'ts](./sub-skills/donts.md)