INCIDENT RESPONSEAI SRE

Incident: AI Cost Explosion

A cost incident is an unexpected increase in token, provider or GPU spend caused by workload, bugs or abuse.

WHY IT MATTERS

Cost runaway can continue silently even when performance and availability look normal.

PRODUCTION EXAMPLE

A prompt regression sends full conversation history on every turn, increasing daily input tokens fivefold.

SRE DECISION

Which emergency controls can cap spend without taking down critical use cases?

REMEMBERBudget limits are reliability controls.
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