Kami Richey Support Manager, West, Fastly at Altitude 2016
Customer Support Engineer Kami Richey talks about how to write the perfect support ticket — or, at least some key information to include when reaching out to Fastly Support. We want to help you find a solution as quickly as possible, but we need your help. Kami goes over important elements to include when writing your support ticket — helping us help you.
14. Subj: Having issues with
site…
Body: Please take a look
What site is having
issues?
news.example.com
What errors are you seeing? I don’t
see anything in our debugging tools
15. We had a huge spike of errors
in our reporting tool
What is the error message
you see?
503s for our news site
Can you send some affected
URLs for us to test?
17. Subj: Having caching issues
Body: We’re having issues with content not caching on
our site: cdn-staging.example.com
Here’s the headers we currently see: link
Here’s what we expected to see: link
To reproduce this, compare headers from
staging.example.com to cdn-staging.example.com
You need to update the cache
settings for your service. Here’s
the steps to set this up:
18. 1. Tell us who you are.
2. Tell us the issue or question.
3. Be specific.
4. Steps to reproduce it.
5. How did you discover it?
The perfect support ticket