There are quite a few handy shortcuts in incident.io....
🧙🏻♂️The One Command to Rule Them All
If you have to learn just one command, it's /inc while in an incident's #inc-... Slack channel - it will pop up a menu of all the actions you can run on that incident 😍
💡 /inc in any other channel will pop up the incident creation form
⚡️ Other super-commands
Emojis
From an incident's #inc-... Slack channel, you can react to messages with:
💥 | Turns the message into an Action |
⏩ | Turns the message into a Follow-up |
📌 | Pins the message to the incident's timeline |
📣 | Turns the message into an Update |
Slack Commands
GENERAL |
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| See information on how to get help |
CREATING/UPDATING INCIDENTS |
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| Create an incident |
| Make someone the incident lead
💡 |
| Mark a live incident as resolved. Once you've done this, you can choose to close the incident or enter the learning flow. |
| Mark the incident as canceled. Use this if you've realised that the incident is not actually a problem. |
| Upgrade and downgrade severities
💡 |
| View, assign and unassign roles during the incident |
| Manage custom fields for this incident |
| Update the top level summary of the incident
💡 |
| See a summary of the incident's history so far |
| Create and manage Actions
💡 |
| Create an incident follow-up item. |
| Change the title of the incident
💡 |
| Update the incident state |
| When an incident is in triage, it'll open the 'accept incident' modal |
| When an incident is in triage, it'll open a modal to help you merge the incident into another one |
| When an incident is in triage, it'll open a modal to let you decline the incident and provide an update |
COMMUNICATION |
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| Provide an internal status update to your team about the incident |
| Create and update your public Statuspage |
| Pull in other teammates for help |
| Set a call link
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| Recognize your team for their work |
POSTMORTEM |
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| View and set postmortem docs
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| Search for useful links in the incident history |
FAQ
Does incident.io support custom slack slash commands?
No, Slack does not allow applications to create custom slash commands as they require explicit approval and need to be consistent across all users of the application.