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What is Incident commander?

Definition 28.9 Research, Data and Risk Platforms · Chapter 28 — Observability and Incident Response

The incident commander holds the overall state of an incident and structures the response — assigning who changes the system, who communicates, who plans — without doing the technical work themselves.

timesourceevent
12:03:00logtickcap: last message on the quote channels
12:03:05alertdata age above 5 s: page
12:03:30alertdata age above 30 s: page
12:03:56alertburn rate: page
12:04:00alertdata age above 60 s: page
12:24:00logtickcap: quote channels resume
12:24:00logrtrisk: data age back under 5 s
Table 28.2. The replayed feed stall’s timeline, merged from alerts and structured logs by firm.observe.timeline. Time to detect: 56 seconds under the burn-rate rule; time to restore: 21 minutes.
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