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# Sharing incidents

Share any Spike incident as a public link with customers, stakeholders, or your team to communicate an outage.

You can share any incident as a public link. This is useful for communicating outages to customers or embedding status updates in your docs.

## Enable public sharing

Public sharing is off by default. To turn it on, go to [Alerts under organisation settings](https://app.spike.sh/settings/general/alerts) and enable it for your organisation.

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{% hint style="info" %}
If you disable public sharing in organisation settings, all existing public incident links become private immediately.
{% endhint %}

## How to share an incident

Open an incident and click the **Share** button on the right-hand side of the incident details page.

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{% hint style="info" %}
Each incident has a unique public link. The link stays the same regardless of how many times you toggle sharing on or off.
{% endhint %}