Operations

Incident Readiness

When your site crashes at 3am, you don't rise to the occasion. You fall to your level of preparation. See if you're ready.

Time:5 mins

Type:Readiness Quiz

Standard:SRE Best Practice

Do you have immutable (WORM) backups that are off-site?

Have you successfully tested a full restore in the last 6 months?

Do you have a defined 24/7 on-call rotation with escalation paths?

Do you have written runbooks for your top 3 failure scenarios?

Can you revoke all access for a compromised employee in < 5 minutes?

Are your logs stored centrally and retained for > 30 days?

Readiness Assessment

Status

Critical

Score: 0/100

Self-assessment only. A real audit requires verification of evidence.

High-performing teams don't improvise during incidents. They follow runbooks. They have pre-assigned roles. They practice.

The goal: Reduce panic, increase speed, prevent repeat failures.

This checklist is based on Google's SRE practices. If you score low, start with the basics: contact lists, rollback procedures, and postmortems.

Numbers are a starting point. Let's design your real infrastructure together.