Support Services

Service Levels

Dock is committed to an SLA Target Percentage of 99.5% Uptime.

Uptime is defined as: (total minutes in month - Downtime) / total minutes in month

Downtime is defined as the total number of minutes the Dock Certs API was unavailable in a given month.

Downtime excludes the following:

• Non-material slowness or other performance issues with individual features

• Any products or features identified as pilot, alpha, beta or similar

• External network or equipment problems outside of Dock’s reasonable control, including any force majeure event, Internet access outage, third party hosting service outage, third party blockchain network latency, or other problems beyond the demarcation point of Dock.

• Scheduled Downtime for maintenance.

Severity and Response Times

Severity Levels

Severity levels refers to the types of issues that may be reported by the Customer, and are defined in the following chart.

Severity Level	Description
SEV-1	Service outage or severe degradation that prevents all business operations.
SEV-2	Service degradation that allows business operations to continue at a less than optimal rate or prevents some but not all business operations.
SEV-3	Incidents that do not directly affect operations or that have limited impact on production environment.
SEV-4	Any issue on a non-production system not covered by SEV-5.
SEV-5	Non-functional or aesthetic issue not affecting the usability of a system, or other inquiries.

Response Times

Dock Business Hours 8AM - 8PM UTC

Priority Support

The mentioned times are for the Dock’s regular business hours. All resolution targets apply only to those errors that are within the control of Dock.

Severity Level	Contact Method	Coverage	Triage	Resolution target
SEV-1	Emergency email	24x7x365	2 hours	8 hours
SEV-2	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	8 hours	24 hours
SEV-3	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	24 hours	2 weeks
SEV-4	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	48 hours	2 weeks
SEV-5	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	2 weeks	N/A

Regular Support

Severity Level	Contact Method	Coverage	Triage	Resolution target
SEV-1	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	4 hours	12 hours
SEV-2	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	24 hours	4 days
SEV-3	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	48 hours	4 weeks
SEV-4	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	96 hours	4 weeks
SEV-5	Slack/Email	Dock Business Hours	2 weeks	N/A

Contacting Support

Our regular support process is email based. Most support inquires should be directed to [e-mail]. Creating email based support tickets allows us to track the concern to a satisfactory conclusion.

We can provide a private Slack channel for contacting support as an additional service.

Emergency Escalation

Customers who are licensed for priority production support will receive the emergency escalation email address at the time they deploy to production. This address is used for pager support, where any message sent will be routed to the mobile device of the on-call support representative. It is the fastest way to get help.

This service is available only for premium support customers and allows raising SEV-1 errors.

Raising a support issue

When raising an issue make sure to communicate in English and we recommend to follow this template:

• Summarize the problem.

• What steps did you follow?

• What behavior did you observe?

• What behavior did you expect?

• What is the impact?

• Describe the environment.

  • Client environment:

    • What device, operating system, and browser? Please include relevant version numbers.

  • Dock environment:

    • Which product are you using? Please include relevant version numbers.

    • When applicable, include the URL of the servers and endpoints that are being accessed.

• Other useful data includes:

  • Any relevant logs,

  • A screen shot,

  • Applicable user names.