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Incident.resolve

POST /{namespace}/incidents/{incident}/resolve

Resolve closes an Incident once its Monitors pass, posts the resolution to the status page and opens the review Task.

Mode
do
Event
Incident.resolved

Inputs

InputTypeRequiredDescription
incidentIncidentrequiredThe Incident to close.
summarytextrequiredWhat failed and what fixed it.

Outputs

OutputTypeRequiredDescription
incidentIncidentrequiredThe resolved Incident.

Effects

  • Emits Incident.resolved.
  • Performed by the Reliability Engineer.
  • Two-way: it runs at once, in the try, send and do modes.
  • Opens a postmortem Task due within five business days.
  • Notifies status page subscribers.

Refuses when

CheckErrorFixThen call
The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation.forbiddenUse a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them.Incident.resolve

When it waits

GateDefault
Decision classLow: two-way, nothing at stake
Delay windowNone: it runs once review passes.
LimitThe call Limit of the Permission it runs under.
Over the LimitIt waits pending for an Approval from the Founder. Approved, it runs; refused, it ends refused with limit-exceeded; unanswered by its deadline, it ends canceled.