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# Severities

> API endpoints for severities

Manage incident severities.

Each incident has a severity, picked from one of the severities configured in your
organisations settings.

Severities help categorise incidents, and communicate urgency/impact. You can use
severities when filtering incidents in the dashboard, and in workflows and announcement
rules.

## The severity object