<h2>Incident Management</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="concept" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Incident Management" /><meta name="abstract" content="Incident Management restores normal service operation while minimizing impact to business operations and maintaining quality." /><meta name="description" content="Incident Management restores normal service operation while minimizing impact to business operations and maintaining quality." /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2023-08-03" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2023-08-03" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="c_IncidentManagement" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Incident Management</title></head><body id="c_IncidentManagement"> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1"><span class="ph">Incident Management</span></h1> <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc"><span class="ph">Incident Management</span> restores normal service operation while minimizing impact to business operations and maintaining quality.</p> <div class="section" id="c_IncidentManagement__section_vwx_3hl_2yb"><h2 class="title sectiontitle"><span class="ph">Incident Management</span> overview</h2> <p class="p"><span>Introduction to incident management; creating, working on, resolving, closing, and reopening an incident; creating a knowledge base article from an incident; escalating an incident; creating a problem or change from an incident.</span> </p> </div> <div class="section" id="c_IncidentManagement__section_jmy_rsk_trb"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Get started</h2> <div class="p"> <div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="c_IncidentManagement__table_iwv_lpv_klb" class="table nav-card" frame="void" border="1" rules="all"><colgroup><col style="width:33.33333333333333%" /><col style="width:33.33333333333333%" /><col style="width:33.33333333333333%" /></colgroup><tbody class="tbody"><tr class="row"><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;"><p class="p"><a class="xref" href="incident-management-process.html" title="ServiceNow Incident Management supports the incident management process with the ability to identify and log incidents, classify and prioritize incidents, assign incidents to appropriate users or groups, escalate, resolve, and report incidents."><span class="ph">Explore </span><img class="image decorative" id="c_IncidentManagement__image_td2_gp4_2yb" src="../../../reuse/icons/brand-icons/bus-explore.svg" alt="" /><span class="ph">Learn about <span class="ph">Incident Management</span> concepts and features.</span></a></p> </td><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;"><p class="p"><a class="xref" href="incident-configuration.html" title="You can configure the incident form and other incident features, such as incident categories and UI behavior. The ITSM guided setup helps you configure incident management on your ServiceNow instance."><span class="ph">Configure </span><img class="image decorative" id="c_IncidentManagement__image_u45_yp4_2yb" src="../../../reuse/icons/brand-icons/bus-sdlc.svg" alt="" /><span class="ph">Configure environment, tools, and user access.</span></a></p> </td><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;"><p class="p"><a class="xref" href="work-on-incidents.html" title="Working on incidents involves diagnosing and investigating the incident, recording results, and sometimes escalating or promoting the incident."><span class="ph">Manage incidents</span><img class="image decorative" id="c_IncidentManagement__image_sxq_djw_fyb" src="../../../reuse/icons/brand-icons/bus-manage.svg" alt="" /><span class="ph">Learn about managing incidents that involves diagnosing, investigating and escalating or promoting the incident.</span></a></p> </td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;"><p class="p"><a class="xref" href="major-incident-management.html" title="A major incident (MI) is an incident that results in significant disruption to the business. A major incident demands a response beyond the routine incident management process. Major incidents have a separate procedure with shorter timescales and higher priority, so that there is a faster resolution process for incidents with high business impact."><span class="ph">Manage major incidents</span><img class="image decorative" id="c_IncidentManagement__image_ctc_fq4_2yb" src="../../../reuse/icons/brand-icons/bus-manage.svg" alt="" /><span class="ph">Learn about managing major incidents that involves creating major incidents and working with major incident overview dashboard and workbench.</span></a></p> </td><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;"><p class="p"><a class="xref" href="incident-monitor-track.html" title="Service desk and other IT managers can use dashboards and reports to monitor and track incident status and service levels."><span class="ph">Report</span><img class="image decorative" id="c_IncidentManagement__image_bfp_vgw_fyb" src="../../../reuse/icons/brand-icons/bus-performance-forecasting-1.svg" alt="" /><span class="ph">Learn to use dashboards and reports to monitor and track incident status and service levels.</span></a></p> </td><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;"><p class="p"><a class="xref" href="../reference/reference-section-for-incident-management.html" title="Reference sections provide additional information about components installed with Incident Management."><span class="ph">Reference</span><img class="image decorative" id="c_IncidentManagement__image_vwt_kq4_2yb" src="../../../reuse/icons/brand-icons/bus-learn.svg" alt="" /><span class="ph">Get details about <span class="ph">Incident Management</span> components such as roles and dependent applications.</span></a></p> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section" id="c_IncidentManagement__section_cxx_3hl_2yb"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Troubleshoot and get help</h2> <div class="p"><ul class="ul" id="c_IncidentManagement__ul_dxx_3hl_2yb"><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="https://community.servicenow.com/community/it-service-management/content?filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5D%7Ecategory%5Bincident-management%5D" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ask or answer questions in the Incident Management community</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0597477" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Search the Known Error Portal for known error articles</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="https://support.servicenow.com/now?draw=case" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Contact <span class="ph">Customer Service and Support</span></a></li></ul> </div> </div> </div> </body></html></div>