Basics

What the game is, what a shift is, and how to read the screen.

Articles in this section

• What SysAdmin Crisis isSysAdmin Crisis is a sysadmin simulator played in a terminal, about being the one on call at three in the morning. See what the game is and how it plays.
• The night shiftA SysAdmin Crisis shift runs from 22:00 to 06:00 in about ten real minutes. Learn how a night works and the two ways it can end.
• Reading the screenLearn to read the SysAdmin Crisis screen: its three regions, how server status is shown, and a status vocabulary that never relies on colour alone.