Working with Khoros during Major Events
We know that there are events that specific communities consider "major" for their business -- whether this is the Superbowl , Black Friday/Cyber Monday, a live event, a new product launch, a relaunch of your design, a demo for executives, or any one of a dozen other scenarios, it is our goal to work with you to ensure that events are as seamless as possible. Outages Khoros is committed to ensuring that you are supported 24/7/365 on any outages. We have a comprehensive guide to outagesandinformation about our general status pageavailable for you to take a look at, but the summary of this is that if you or your customer's are down or unable to work, let us know and we'll quickly take a look to see what's going on! You can always keep up to date on our status page where we do our best to provide insight to outages impacting multiple customers. Being Proactive Assuming you know ahead of time that you have a major event coming up, please let us know as early as possible - at least a week - if not more - is ideal! Although we have monitoring in place to help mitigate issues as best as possible, the best situation is where we can proactively review allocated resources, your server side setup, and make sure that there simplyaren't any issues! Reaching Out If you have a Technical Account Manager or CSM, please make sure that they and Support are aware of yourimpending event so that they can pay attention to it. If you don't, don't despair! Open a support case letting our team know that you have an event coming, what the date and time of it is and that you'd like us to take a look to see if there's anything that needs to be done to help prevent an impact on you or your customers. If you can addProactive to the case subject, it'll help us organize the solution as well. Depending on need and contracted level of support, this may require some additional conversations to figure out what is necessary to help you be successful. The above applies to whether you're a Care, Communities, Marketing, or JX customer!How often do we update our Severity 1 and 2 cases?
When you submit a case to Khoros, we do our utmost to ensure that your case is taken care of. As an organization that is focused on customer satisfaction and success, our normal case update cadence for highly impacted customer support tickets is as follows: Sev 1: Every 60 minutes or less, based on material updates Sev 2: Every 3 business days These times may vary by contract, support tier, or agreed upon communication timeframes and may be adjusted based on operational needs. If you experience wait times outside of these expectations, there are two options available to you: You may contact your designated CSM and they will work with support leadership to review cadence concerns. For cases that are Sev 2 or above, we would recommend escalating the Support ticket in question using these steps: https://community.khoros.com/t5/Support-Information/Escalating-Support-Cases/ta-p/411300Comprehensive Outage Information
What is a Severity 1 incident? A Severity 1 incident is a situation where the application is essentially rendered useless and prevents all, or the majority, of users from accessing or using the application for its primary purpose. Community - Severity 1 Definition At least 50% of users are experiencing one or more of the following problems: Cannot access the production community Cannot post anywhere on the production community Cannot log in to the production community Extreme slowness (several seconds or minutes) to load nearly any page on the production community A major security risk or vulnerability Note: Any of the same issues happening only on the stage community would not classify as a Severity 1 incident. In these situations, a normal Support ticket should be filed via the case portal. Khoros Care - Severity 1 Definition No one can access or log in to Khoros Care Data is not coming in to Khoros Care for any one of the standard social integrations, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Khoros Community, or Google+ No agent is able to send responses out to any one of the standard social integrations, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Khoros Community, or Google+ Extreme slowness (several seconds or minutes) to load or respond to nearly all conversations A major security risk or vulnerability Khoros Marketing - Severity 1 Definition No one can access or log in to Khoros Marketing Data is not coming in to Khoros Marketing for any one of the standard social integrations, i.e. Facebook, Twitter. No account is able to send responses out to any one of the standard social integrations, i.e. Facebook, Twitter. Extreme slowness (several seconds or minutes) to load or respond to nearly all conversations A major security risk or vulnerability Who do I contact if there's a Severity 1 incident? Email:outage@khoros.com What information should I provide? When reporting and outage, to expedite turnaround time please provide the following: Brief description and steps to replicate the issue Sample URL to where the issue can be seen (the home page is fine if no specific URL) What is your Service Level Agreement (SLA) on Severity 1 incidents? Support on severity 1 incidents is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including published holidays. We guarantee a 15 minute initial response for Standard and Premium Support. The most up-to-date SLA information can always be found athttps://khoros.com/service-level-agreement Do you have a server status page to check for real-time updates? Yes. It is located athttp://status.khoros.com/and you can subscribe to it via email or SMS (limitations apply to SMS updates). Note: Khoros monitors all of its critical services both internally and through third-party services. This page reports on known infrastructure wide incidents affecting Khoros platforms. If you're experiencing an availability or a performance issue that isn't shown on that page, please report it to outage@khoros.com My contract says .... Your contact overrules the statements in this document. This outlines our standard expectations and commitments, however customers with increased or grandfathered support offerings may have different contractual agreements.
