Incident response

Incident Troubleshooting Labs

Practice real incident response in live environments.

Deadnodes simulates production incidents so engineers can practice triage, mitigation, and recovery.

Incident-style scenarios
Live terminals
Timed pressure
Post-run scoring

Playbooks only

No hands-on practice
No live systems
No performance data
Low retention

Deadnodes labs

Live incidents
Hands-on recovery
Measurable results
Repeatable practice

Incident workflows

Practice triage, mitigation, and recovery with real systems.

Triage
Mitigation
Recovery

For teams and hiring

Use consistent scenarios for interviews and team readiness.

Interviews
Training
Team drills

Fast to launch

Start an incident scenario in minutes.

No setup
Browser-based

Deadnodes: DevOps practice labs and technical interview platform

Deadnodes helps engineers and hiring teams practice and assess real DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering skills in live browser environments.

Hands-on troubleshooting labs for Linux, Kubernetes, Postgres, networking, and CI/CD.
Live terminal scenarios with timed runs, scoring, and run history.
Technical interview meetings with secure candidate links and a task picker.
Code Playbook exercises for live coding, pseudocode, debugging, and reasoning.
AI-assisted reports that summarize candidate actions, risks, and next questions.

Key pages: /en/for-ai-agents, /en/interview, /en/tasks/browse, /en/pricing.