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R · Stage 5 of 5 · Reliable

Respond

When a trigger is reached, a role or an automated system acts, and the decision the monitoring exists for is made.

What goes wrong

ClassWhat it looks like
No action definedWhat it looks likeThe plan says “notify the engineer” but does not name the engineer or state what they must do.
Nobody thereWhat it looks likeThe alarm goes to a shared inbox that no one checks at night; the person on the call list has left.
Alarm fatigueWhat it looks likeAlarms are raised so often without cause that people stop responding.
No timeWhat it looks likeThe trigger is set so close to the limit that the action cannot be completed.
Silent automationWhat it looks likeAn automated pump fails to start and no one is notified.
Person-dependentWhat it looks likeThe response works only while one person is employed.
No reviewWhat it looks likeThe same failure recurs because nothing was changed after the last one.
Response by discoveryWhat it looks likeThe first response is a person seeing the problem in the field.

Problems and services

ProblemService
An alarm that reached the wrong person, or too lateServiceMonitoring system review
Alarms ignored, misdirected or unrecorded across the networkServiceMonitoring system review
A response plan that has never been runServiceResponse exercises
A release, an exceedance or a missed alarm to explainServiceMonitoring system review

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