When to use it
Operations runbooks, on-call handbooks and incident management policies. Severity is drawn with two levels (P1 / P2), and recovery comes before root-cause analysis: stop the bleeding first, then learn.
Making it yours
- Severity criteria are the edge labels out of
C{Impact}; add a level by adding an edge. - Put the notification channel and people in the node:
F[Open a war room<br/>page owner and support]. - Add nodes for the retrospective deliverables (incident report, action item tracking).
- Ink Black suits a dark on-call dashboard; switch to Light or Indigo for a white document.
Mermaid code
flowchart TD
A([Alert or user report]) --> B[On-call confirms the incident]
B --> C{Impact}
C -- One feature --> D[P2 minor incident]
C -- Core feature down --> E[P1 major incident]
E --> F[Open a war room and page the owner]
D --> G[Find the root cause]
F --> G
G --> H{Quick recovery possible?}
H -- Yes --> I[Roll back / restart / failover]
H -- No --> J[Apply a temporary mitigation]
I --> K[Verify recovery]
J --> K
K --> L{Back to normal?}
L -- No --> G
L -- Yes --> M[Publish the incident report]
M --> N[Retrospective and action items]
N --> O([Close the incident])Ask an AI for one with this structure
Send the prompt below to ChatGPT or Claude, then paste the whole reply into the editor; the code inside is detected automatically.
Draw an incident response flowchart in Mermaid flowchart TD syntax: after an alert or user report the on-call engineer confirms the incident and triages impact into P2 minor (one feature) or P1 major (core feature down, which opens a war room and pages the owner); then find the root cause and decide whether quick recovery is possible: roll back, restart or fail over if yes, apply a temporary mitigation if no; verify recovery, going back to root cause if not recovered; finally publish the incident report, run a retrospective with action items and close the incident. Use rounded nodes for start and end. Output only the mermaid code block.
FAQ
- Are slashes in node text a problem?
[Roll back / restart / failover]is fine inside square brackets. What must be avoided are brackets, parentheses and braces themselves; wrap the text in quotes if you need them:A["Text (note)"].- Is the PNG exported from a dark theme dark?
Yes, the export background follows the theme, so Ink Black exports a dark background. Choose "Transparent" in the export options for a transparent PNG.
- How do I print this large for the on-call wall?
Export the PNG at 3x, or export SVG for the print shop; vector scales without loss.
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Updated 2026-09-05