Integration Incident Response Checklist

A printable sequence for responding to an integration failure: confirm, scope, contain, escalate, verify and record) with the steps teams most often skip.

Integration Incident Response Checklist

Integration incidents go wrong in predictable ways: responding to a failure that is not occurring, fixing before establishing scope, and escalating without the evidence the vendor needs. This sequence is ordered to prevent those three.

1. Confirm

  • Reproduce the failure directly against the integration, not through a dashboard.
  • Establish what a healthy response looks like before deciding this one is unhealthy.
  • Check whether a workaround applied previously is still in place and distorting symptoms.

2. Scope

  • Which operations and endpoints are affected, and which are not.
  • How many records, and over what window.
  • First occurrence from raw telemetry, not first report.
  • Which customers are affected, and whether any are contractually sensitive.

3. Contain

  • Decide explicitly whether to disable the integration, and record what breaks if you do.
  • If applying a retry or filter to mask the symptom, record it as a mitigation with an owner and a review date. An undocumented mask is how this returns in six months.
  • Confirm the provider's replay window before data ages out of it.

4. Escalate

  • Use the support channel specified by contract, even if another is faster to reach.
  • First message contains: reproduction, their request identifier, UTC timestamps, scope, what you ruled out, and references to prior occurrences.
  • Copy the account owner; do not route through them.

5. Verify

  • Confirm the fix against your own telemetry. Do not close on the vendor's assurance.
  • Reconcile the affected window against the source of truth.
  • Backfill, then verify the backfill.

6. Record

  • Append to the integration's timeline: first occurrence, detection, scope, every vendor exchange, mitigations and whether they remain, and the resolution.
  • Link to prior occurrences with the same signature.
  • Update the runbook's history section while it is fresh.
The three most skipped steps

First occurrence from raw telemetry, recording the mitigation as still in place, and verifying the fix rather than accepting the vendor's word. Each one is cheap now and expensive to reconstruct later.

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