Reference · Glossary

Tabletop exercise

A **walk-through drill** where the team talks through an incident scenario without touching production.

#When to use

Onboarding new on-call engineers and validating runbooks before launch.

#When not to

Substituting for actual restore drills when RTO/RPO are contractual.

#Example

90-minute session: "Vector DB region down" — each role states their first three actions from the runbook.