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incident.degraded

It worked, but worse than it should: a fallback, a retry, a slow dependency

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Logs

Written with

log()

Level

warn
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Incident intents

Example

TS
log('incident.degraded', 'Search fell back to the cached index', { tookMs: 4200 });
Writes
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{
  "intent": "incident.degraded",
  "level": "warn",
  "alert": false,
  "message": "Search fell back to the cached index",
  "data": {
    "tookMs": 4200
  },
  "time": "2026-10-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Choosing between neighbours

Find the row that describes your case, and use the intent on the right.

  • If it is

    Use

  • It worked, but worse than it should: a fallback, a retry, a slow dependency

    incident.degraded this page

  • Something that recovered or fell back

    rather than incident.failed
    incident.degraded this page

Connections

Declared in the registry, both directions. Where an intent is used in your own code is something check and the gallery see; this site has no app code.

For registry authors

Starter intents. These are the intents prongs add logs puts in your registry. Change levels through the level.* intents, and point log() at your logger.

The entry prongs add logs writes into your registry. Change the level through its level.* ref.

TS
'incident.degraded': {
  kind: 'semantic',
  description: 'It worked, but worse than it should: a fallback, a retry, a slow dependency',
  refs: ['level.warn'],
},