============================================================ INCIDENT CLASSIFICATION REPORT ============================================================ CLASSIFICATION: Severity: SEV1 Confidence: 100.0% Reasoning: Classified as SEV1 based on: keywords: timeout, 500 error; user impact: 80% Timestamp: 2026-02-16T12:41:46.644096+00:00 RECOMMENDED RESPONSE: Primary Team: Analytics Team Supporting Teams: SRE, API Team, Backend Engineering, Finance Engineering, Payments Team, DevOps, Compliance Team, Database Team, Platform Team, Data Engineering Response Time: 5 minutes INITIAL ACTIONS: 1. Establish incident command (Priority 1) Timeout: 5 minutes Page incident commander and establish war room 2. Create incident ticket (Priority 1) Timeout: 2 minutes Create tracking ticket with all known details 3. Update status page (Priority 2) Timeout: 15 minutes Post initial status page update acknowledging incident 4. Notify executives (Priority 2) Timeout: 15 minutes Alert executive team of customer-impacting outage 5. Engage subject matter experts (Priority 3) Timeout: 10 minutes Page relevant SMEs based on affected systems COMMUNICATION: Subject: 🚨 [SEV1] payment-api - Database connection timeouts causing 500 errors fo... Urgency: SEV1 Recipients: on-call, engineering-leadership, executives, customer-success Channels: pager, phone, slack, email, status-page Update Frequency: Every 15 minutes ============================================================