# Incident Reduction

> The ability to reduce the number of incidents that reach human responders by fixing them automatically.

Record: `lexicon:incident-reduction`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Correctness Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/correctness-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-incident-reduction

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Horizontal Scalability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/horizontal-scalability.md) and before [Manual Remediation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/manual-remediation.md).

## Category

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)

## Enabled by

- [Auto-Remediation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/auto-remediation.md)

## Linked from

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)