Incident Management
Practical
By Samson Tanimawo, PhD
Published Apr 11, 2026
4 min read
Incident Tool Consolidation
Many teams have 4+ incident tools. Consolidation saves money and confusion.
Live workflow · 3 working · 1 queuedLive
Signal · gather Working
Decide · pick action Working
Apply · with verify Working
Learn · update playbook Queued
Audit
List every incident-related tool: paging, comms, status page, runbook, IM, postmortem.
Note overlap. Many vendors do 3-4 of these.
Consolidate
Pick one or two vendors. Migrate incrementally.
Each consolidation saves cost and operational complexity.
Avoid
Migrating during high-incident weeks. The transition itself is risky.
Picking the cheapest. Choose by fit, not price alone.