Understanding Service Response Priorities

Understanding Service Response Priorities

This document defines the service priority classifications used during support and operational incidents.

Emergency Priority

Used for complete outages, major security incidents, or severe business interruption.

Urgent Priority

Used for major degradation affecting critical operations.

High Priority

Used for significant functionality impairment with operational impact.

Normal Priority

Used for standard operational support requests.

Low Priority

Used for informational requests, planning items, or minor non-critical tasks.

Priority Assignment Standards

  • Priorities should reflect operational impact
  • Customer-facing outages receive elevated priority
  • Security-related incidents should be escalated immediately
  • Infrastructure instability should not remain in low-priority queues