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stage: Monitor
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group: Health
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Incidents **(FREE)**
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Incidents are critical entities in incident management workflows. They represent
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a service disruption or outage that needs to be restored urgently. GitLab provides
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tools for the triage, response, and remediation of incidents.
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Users with at least Guest [permissions](../../user/permissions.md) can access
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incidents [on public projects](../../user/permissions.md#project-members-permissions).
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## Incident Creation
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You can create an incident manually or automatically.
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### Create incidents manually
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If you have at least Guest [permissions](../../user/permissions.md), to create an
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Incident, you have two options to do this manually.
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**From the Incidents List:**
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> [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/monitor/health/-/issues/24) to GitLab Free in 13.3.
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- Navigate to **Operations > Incidents** and click **Create Incident**.
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- Create a new issue using the `incident` template available when creating it.
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- Create a new issue and assign the `incident` label to it.
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**From the Issues List:**
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/230857) in GitLab 13.4.
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1. Go to **Issues > List**, and select **New issue**.
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1. In the **Type** dropdown, select **Incident**. Only fields relevant to
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incidents are displayed on the page.
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1. Create the incident as needed, and select **Submit issue** to save the
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incident.
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### Create incidents automatically
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/4925) in GitLab Ultimate 11.11.
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With Maintainer or higher [permissions](../../user/permissions.md), you can enable
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GitLab to create incident automatically whenever an alert is triggered:
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1. Navigate to **Settings > Operations > Incidents** and expand **Incidents**.
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1. Check the **Create an incident** checkbox.
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1. To customize the incident, select an
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[issue template](../../user/project/description_templates.md#create-an-issue-template).
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1. To send [an email notification](paging.md#email-notifications) to users
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with [Developer permissions](../../user/permissions.md), select
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**Send a separate email notification to Developers**. Email notifications are
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also sent to users with **Maintainer** and **Owner** permissions.
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1. Click **Save changes**.
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### Create incidents via the PagerDuty webhook
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/119018) in GitLab 13.3.
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You can set up a webhook with PagerDuty to automatically create a GitLab incident
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for each PagerDuty incident. This configuration requires you to make changes
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in both PagerDuty and GitLab:
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1. Sign in as a user with Maintainer [permissions](../../user/permissions.md).
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1. Navigate to **Settings > Operations > Incidents** and expand **Incidents**.
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1. Select the **PagerDuty integration** tab:
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1. Activate the integration, and save the changes in GitLab.
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1. Copy the value of **Webhook URL** for use in a later step.
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1. Follow the steps described in the
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[PagerDuty documentation](https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/webhooks)
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to add the webhook URL to a PagerDuty webhook integration.
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To confirm the integration is successful, trigger a test incident from PagerDuty to
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confirm that a GitLab incident is created from the incident.
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## Incident list
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For users with at least Guest [permissions](../../user/permissions.md), the
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Incident list is available at **Operations > Incidents**
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in your project's sidebar. The list contains the following metrics:
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- **Status** - To filter incidents by their status, click **Open**, **Closed**,
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or **All** above the incident list.
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- **Search** - The Incident list supports a simple free text search, which filters
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on the **Title** and **Incident** fields.
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- **Severity** - Severity of a particular incident, which can be one of the following
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values:
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- **{severity-critical}** **Critical - S1**
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- **{severity-high}** **High - S2**
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- **{severity-medium}** **Medium - S3**
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- **{severity-low}** **Low - S4**
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- **{severity-unknown}** **Unknown**
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[Editing incident severity](#change-severity) on the incident details page was
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[introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/229402) in GitLab 13.4.
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- **Incident** - The description of the incident, which attempts to capture the
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most meaningful data.
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- **Date created** - How long ago the incident was created. This field uses the
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standard GitLab pattern of `X time ago`, but is supported by a granular date/time
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tooltip depending on the user's locale.
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- **Assignees** - The user assigned to the incident.
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- **Published** - Displays a green check mark (**{check-circle}**) if the incident is published
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to a [Status Page](status_page.md). **(ULTIMATE)**
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The Incident list displays incidents sorted by incident created date.
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([Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/229534) to GitLab Free in 13.3.)
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To see if a column is sortable, point your mouse at the header. Sortable columns
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display an arrow next to the column name.
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Incidents share the [Issues API](../../user/project/issues/index.md).
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NOTE:
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For a live example of the incident list in action, visit this
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[demo project](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-examples/ops/incident-setup/everyone/tanuki-inc/-/incidents).
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## Incident details
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/230847) in GitLab 13.4.
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Users with at least Guest [permissions](../../user/permissions.md) can view
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the Incident Details page. Navigate to **Operations > Incidents** in your project's
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sidebar, and select an incident from the list.
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When you take any of these actions on an incident, GitLab logs a system note and
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displays it in the Incident Details view:
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- Updating the severity of an incident
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([Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/42358) in GitLab 13.5.)
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For live examples of GitLab incidents, visit the `tanuki-inc` project's
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[incident list page](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-examples/ops/incident-setup/everyone/tanuki-inc/-/incidents).
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Click any incident in the list to display its incident details page.
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### Summary
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The summary section for incidents provides both critical details about and the
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contents of the issue template (if one was used). The highlighted bar at the top
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of the incident displays from left to right:
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- The link to the original alert.
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- The alert start time.
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- The event count.
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Beneath the highlight bar, GitLab displays a summary that includes the following fields:
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- Start time
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- Severity
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- `full_query`
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- Monitoring tool
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Comments are displayed in threads, but can be displayed chronologically
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[in a timeline view](#timeline-view).
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### Metrics
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/235994) in [GitLab Premium](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.8.
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In many cases, incidents are associated to metrics. You can upload screenshots of metric
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charts in the **Metrics** tab:
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When you upload an image, you can associate it with a URL to the original graph. Users can access the original graph by clicking the image:
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### Alert details
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Incidents show the details of linked alerts in a separate tab. To populate this
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tab, the incident must have been created with a linked alert. Incidents
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created automatically from alerts have this
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field populated.
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### Timeline view **(PREMIUM)**
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/227836) in [GitLab Premium](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.5.
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To quickly see the latest updates on an incident, click
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**{comments}** **Turn timeline view on** in the comment bar to display comments
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un-threaded and ordered chronologically, newest to oldest:
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### Service Level Agreement countdown timer **(PREMIUM)**
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/241663) in [GitLab Premium](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.5.
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You can enable the Service Level Agreement Countdown timer on incidents to track
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the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) you hold with your customers. The timer is
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automatically started when the incident is created, and shows the time
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remaining before the SLA period expires. To configure the timer:
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1. Navigate to **Settings > Operations**.
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1. Scroll to **Incidents** and click **Expand**, then select the
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**Incident settings** tab.
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1. Select **Activate "time to SLA" countdown timer**.
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1. Set a time limit in increments of 15 minutes.
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1. Click **Save changes**.
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After you enable the SLA countdown timer, the **Time to SLA** attribute is displayed
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as a column in the Incidents List, and as a field on newly created Incidents. If
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the incident isn't closed before the SLA period ends, GitLab adds a `missed::SLA`
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label to the incident.
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## Incident Actions
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There are different actions available to help triage and respond to incidents.
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### Assign incidents
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Assign incidents to users that are actively responding. Select **Edit** in the
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right-hand side bar to select or deselect assignees.
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### Associate a milestone
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Associate an incident to a milestone by selecting **Edit** next to the milestone feature in the right-hand side bar.
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### Change severity
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See [Incident List](#incident-list) for a full description of the severity levels available.
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Select **Edit** in the right-hand side bar to change the severity of an incident.
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### Add a to-do item
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Add a to-do for incidents that you want to track in your to-do list. Click the
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**Add a to do** button at the top of the right-hand side bar to add a to-do item.
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### Manage incidents from Slack
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Slack slash commands allow you to control GitLab and view GitLab content without leaving Slack.
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Learn how to [set up Slack slash commands](../../user/project/integrations/slack_slash_commands.md)
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and how to [use the available slash commands](../../integration/slash_commands.md).
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### Associate Zoom calls
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GitLab enables you to [associate a Zoom meeting with an issue](../../user/project/issues/associate_zoom_meeting.md)
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for synchronous communication during incident management. After starting a Zoom
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call for an incident, you can associate the conference call with an issue. Your
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team members can join the Zoom call without requesting a link.
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### Embed metrics in incidents
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You can embed metrics anywhere [GitLab Markdown](../../user/markdown.md) is
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used, such as descriptions, comments on issues, and merge requests. Embedding
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metrics helps you share them when discussing incidents or performance issues.
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You can output the dashboard directly into any issue, merge request, epic, or
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any other Markdown text field in GitLab by
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[copying and pasting the link to the metrics dashboard](../metrics/embed.md#embedding-gitlab-managed-kubernetes-metrics).
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You can embed both [GitLab-hosted metrics](../metrics/embed.md) and
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[Grafana metrics](../metrics/embed_grafana.md) in incidents and issue
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templates.
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