Incident Management
Practical
By Samson Tanimawo, PhD
Published May 15, 2026
4 min read
The Incident Dashboard Built for Live Response
Dashboards for daily ops are wrong for incidents. The incident-specific dashboard.
Live workflow · 3 working · 1 queuedLive
Signal · gather Working
Decide · pick action Working
Apply · with verify Working
Learn · update playbook Queued
Layout
Top: current state of affected services. Big text; red or green.
Middle: time-series of key metrics (last hour).
Bottom: recent deploys, recent alerts.
Focus
Only metrics relevant to the incident. Hide everything else.
Expandable: drill-downs without leaving the page.
Share
URL-shareable. War-room participants see the same view.
Permanent for postmortem reference.