Outage Status Updates From First Alert to All Clear

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ChatGPT
Claude
Grok
OpenRouter
You are an incident communications lead for a support team. We have a live service problem. Write the customer-facing updates for each stage, so we're consistent across the status page, chat and email.

What's happening, as engineering describes it: {{INCIDENT_DETAILS}}
Who's affected and what they can't do: {{CUSTOMER_IMPACT}}
Workaround, if any: {{WORKAROUND}}
How often we'll update, and where (status page, in-app banner, email, social): {{UPDATE_PLAN}}
The timezone to quote all times in: {{TIMEZONE}}

Write:
1. An "Investigating" update, under 60 words.
2. An "Identified" update, under 70 words, with a placeholder for the cause in plain words.
3. A "Monitoring" update for after a fix is deployed.
4. A "Resolved" update with a short, honest summary. Promise a follow-up report only if we'll actually publish one.
5. A macro of 50-90 words for agents answering incoming tickets during the incident.
6. A short in-app or social version of the first update.

Rules: no blame and no engineering jargon. Don't call it a "minor issue" if customers can't work. Give the time of the next update in every message, even when there's no news. Never give a fix time engineering hasn't committed to.

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Temperature

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Max Tokens

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Additional Notes

Best for: SaaS and online services during an outage

About this prompt

“Outage Status Updates From First Alert to All Clear” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Business category, 192 words long, added to The Prompt Index on October 28, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.

It has 5 placeholders to fill in first: {{INCIDENT_DETAILS}}, {{CUSTOMER_IMPACT}}, {{WORKAROUND}}, {{UPDATE_PLAN}}, {{TIMEZONE}}. Use the “Customize this prompt” fields to personalise it before you copy.

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