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Severity Definitions

Severity definitions so everyone agrees on what SEV-n means.

Updated June 9, 2026 · §202606092046-37 ·
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Severity Definitions

Purpose

Severity definitions so everyone agrees on what SEV-n means.

SeverityDefinitionExampleResponse
SEV1Critical, broad customer/business impactTotal ingest loss; prod downPage IC immediately, all-hands
SEV2Significant impact, degradedMajor dashboard/alerting outagePage on-call
SEV3Minor / containedSingle non-critical service degradedTicket, business hours
SEV4Negligible / informationalCosmetic, no user impactBacklog

[stub: severity-thresholds-detail] — fill this in. Greppable doc-debt marker.

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