Incident Management Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published Mar 28, 2026 4 min read

The Degraded-Mode Recovery Runbook

Recovering from degraded mode is its own runbook. The steps that prevent re-degradation.

Verify root cause fixed

Don't recover until the cause is fixed. Recovery on top of an unfixed root cause re-fails fast.

Verification step is mandatory.

Restore one feature at a time. Watch metrics between.

Catches partial-failure modes.

Status updates as features come back.

Customers see incremental improvement.