# When declaring an incident becomes everyone’s favorite workaround

- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #532（2026-08-31）
- **作者**: Brent Chapman
- **链接**: https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/08/11/declaring-incidents-for-side-effects/

## 简介

Need another team to do something fast?  Just use this one weird trick: declare an incident!  This article explains why the obvious solution (gating incident declaration) isn’t a good idea.