{
  "id": 870092,
  "title": "More Incidents Don't Necessarily Mean Less Reliability",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/more-incidents-dont-necessarily-mean-less-reliability",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-14T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "InfoQ",
    "slug": "infoq",
    "url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/incidents-reliability-metrics/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "One of the most common assumptions in engineering leadership is that a rising number of reported incidents signals declining system reliability. However, a recent article from Great Circle argues that the opposite is often true: an increase in incident counts may actually indicate that an organization's incident management culture is improving. By Craig Risi",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}