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by x86a 678 days ago
This is intentional. It's mostly a matter of discussing how to communicate it publicly and when to flip the switch to start the SLA timer. Also coordinating incident response during a huge outage is always challenging.
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That it may be but there’s no excuse.

Declare an incident first, investigate later.

Cheating SLAs by delaying the incident is a good way to erode trust within and without.

> Declare an incident first, investigate later.

If that would be the best way to deal with it- why is literally no one doing it this way and what does that tell you?

because it involves admitting that you messed up which companies are often disensentivized to do
False positives?