Northgate Engineering / Playbook Suite 51 playbooks · v2.0 · 44 carry KQL

The document you open when the call comes in

A runbook tells you which buttons to press, and works until the incident is not the one it was written for, which is most of them. These are written the other way round: the decision first, the commands second. Severity classification at the top rather than in an appendix, evidence preservation before investigation, because the order matters and getting it wrong is not recoverable.

51Playbooks
4Families
44Carry KQL
12P1 severity
Classify Preserve Investigate Contain Close out
51 playbooks

Incident Response

25

End-to-end response for a named incident type: what to do in the first hour, what evidence to preserve, who to tell, and how to close it out.

Triage

11

The decision at the front of the queue. What the alert means, what to check first, and the criteria for escalating or closing.

Operational

8

The processes that hold the function together between incidents: evidence handling, on-call, reporting, tooling and review.

Threat Hunting

7

Hypothesis-driven hunts with the queries, the data they need, and what a finding looks like when you get one.