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Site Reliability Engineering

by Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
15h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix C. Example Incident State Document

Shakespeare Sonnet++ Overload: 2015-10-21 Incident management info: http://incident-management-cheat-sheet

(Communications lead to keep summary updated.) Summary: Shakespeare search service in cascading failure due to newly discovered sonnet not in search index.

Status: active, incident #465

Command Post(s): #shakespeare on IRC

Command Hierarchy (all responders)

  • Current Incident Commander: jennifer

    • Operations lead: docbrown

    • Planning lead: jennifer

    • Communications lead: jennifer

  • Next Incident Commander: to be determined

(Update at least every four hours and at handoff of Comms Lead role.) Detailed Status (last updated at 2015-10-21 15:28 UTC by jennifer)

Exit Criteria:

  • New sonnet added to Shakespeare search corpus TODO

  • Within availability (99.99%) and latency (99%ile < 100 ms) SLOs for 30+ minutes TODO

TODO list and bugs filed:

  • Run MapReduce job to reindex Shakespeare corpus DONE

  • Borrow emergency resources to bring up extra capacity DONE

  • Enable flux capacitor to balance load between clusters (Bug 5554823) TODO

Incident timeline (most recent first: times are in UTC)

  • 2015-10-21 15:28 UTC jennifer

    • Increasing serving capacity globally by 2x

  • 2015-10-21 15:21 UTC jennifer

    • Directing all traffic to USA-2 sacrificial cluster and draining traffic from other clusters so they can recover from cascading failure while spinning up more tasks

    • MapReduce index job complete, awaiting Bigtable replication to all clusters ...

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