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Incident Stakeholders

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Incident Stakeholders#

Incident stakeholders are people who should stay informed about an incident without necessarily being the active responder or assignee.

Stakeholders are useful for:

  • service owners;
  • business owners;
  • support contacts;
  • customer success contacts;
  • executives or other observers.

Stakeholder snapshots#

When an incident is created for a service, IncidentRelay can copy service default stakeholders into the incident stakeholder list.

This is a snapshot:

  • new service default stakeholders affect only new incidents;
  • existing incidents keep their own stakeholder list;
  • incident stakeholders can be edited directly without changing the service defaults.

Read more: Service default stakeholders.

Notification events#

Stakeholders can receive notifications for lifecycle events:

EventDescription
CreatedA new incident was created for a service.
Priority changedA responder changed the incident priority manually.
Status changedThe incident was acknowledged or changed status.
ResolvedThe incident was resolved.

Notification channels#

Stakeholder notifications are informational.

They can be delivered through:

  • email, when the stakeholder has an email address;
  • browser push, when the stakeholder is an active IncidentRelay user with browser push enabled.

Stakeholder browser push notifications do not include ACK, Resolve, Shelve or Unshelve action buttons.