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Time to Customer Awareness: the Incident KPI No One Measures

In most incident response pipelines, customers begin experiencing impact at minute zero. Within a few minutes, the first support tickets arrive. By minute ten, customer-initiated posts appear in shared channels. Public status pages are typically updated somewhere between thirty and ninety minutes. The gap between when a customer first feels impact and when that customer is formally told is a measurable, important, and almost universally unmeasured KPI. Call it Time-to-Customer Awareness, or TTC-Aware. ...

February 1, 2026 · 6 min · Jared L.