Incident Management Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published May 19, 2026 4 min read

The Incident Archive: Why It Matters

Past incidents are training data. The archive that makes the data accessible.

Structure

Per incident: timeline, postmortem, action items.

Tagged: services, severity, cause class.

Full-text + tag-filtered. Engineers find similar past incidents in seconds.

Pattern-recognition during new incidents.

Teach

New on-calls read recent archives.

Better than reading runbooks; the archive shows what real incidents look like.