Escalation Glossary Definition

Term Escalation
Definition

Escalation is the act of raising an issue, risk, decision, or conflict to a higher authority or broader audience for resolution.

Escalation is a DevOps operations and reliability concept used to observe service behavior, respond to failures, and improve resilience over time.

Context & Usage

Project teams use escalation when a matter exceeds their authority, urgency, or ability to resolve locally.

Related concepts include Issue.

Site Reliability Engineering and operations teams use this concept to measure service health, investigate incidents, and turn operational learning into improvement.

Related concepts include DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability and Incident Response.

Additional Resource: Google Site Reliability Engineering Book.

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