# Incident Response

> Detecting, triaging, and resolving an operational incident once an alert fires.

Record: `lexicon:incident-response`
Kind: activity
Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-incident-response

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Alert Fatigue](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/alert-fatigue.md) and before [Timely Intervention](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/timely-intervention.md).

## Category

- [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/observability-auditability-traceability.md)

## Reinforced by

- [Alerting](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/alerting.md)

## Linked from

- [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md)