# How SRE Teams Use Incident Severity Frameworks to Triage Faster

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Podcast: [The Site Reliability Podcast with Fexingo: SRE, Uptime, and Production Engineering](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923)
Published: 2026-07-07T10:21:29+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0096.mp3
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## Resource

Every outage feels urgent, but not every issue deserves a full war room. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into how SRE teams use incident severity frameworks — from P0 to P5 — to classify, triage, and respond efficiently. They break down the trade-offs between speed and accuracy when assigning severity, using real examples from major outages at GitHub and Cloudflare. Learn why well-defined severity levels reduce cognitive load during incidents, how to avoid 'severity creep' where everything becomes a P1, and the simple rule that prevents teams from overreacting to minor blips. If you're on call or building incident response processes, this one is for you. #IncidentSeverity #SRE #IncidentResponse #P0P1P2 #Triage #OnCall #GitHub #Cloudflare #SiteReliabilityEngineering #DevOps #IncidentManagement #SeverityFramework #WarRoom #CognitiveLoad #Uptime #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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