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Description

Support and escalation contacts were not easily discoverable in documentation. Users relied on Slack tribal knowledge to find incident contacts, support workflows, and escalation paths.

Changes:

  • Decision tree for support routing (troubleshoot/overview.mdx): 3-tab structure distinguishing "outage/incident", "product help", and "bug report" flows with clear escalation paths for Cloud vs self-hosted deployments

  • Support sections on entry pages: Added "Need help?" sections to get-started/intro.mdx, cloud/intro.mdx, cloud/faq.mdx, and faq/faq-overview.mdx with card links to support channels

  • Problem-specific escalation: Added support guidance to cloud/connection-errors.mdx and troubleshoot/troubleshoot-oom.mdx with context-appropriate escalation steps

  • Search optimization: Embedded keywords throughout (support, escalation, incident, troubleshooting, contact, reproduce) for discoverability

  • Cross-links: Established navigation paths between intro → troubleshooting → FAQ → Cloud support pages

Support paths defined:

  • Cloud: cloud-support@risingwave-labs.com
  • Community: Slack workspace + #ask-ai channel
  • Enterprise: sales@risingwave-labs.com
  • Bugs: GitHub issues

Files modified: 8 (+225, -26 lines)

Related code PR

N/A - Documentation only

Related doc issue

https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave-docs/issues/[issue-number]

Checklist

  • I have run the documentation build locally to verify the updates are applied correctly.
  • For new pages, I have updated mint.json to include the page in the table of contents.
  • All links and references have been checked and are not broken.
Original prompt

This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Improve discoverability of support/escalation contact guidance in docs</issue_title>
<issue_description>## Context
Slack thread: https://slack.com/archives/C0AE8A81LE6/p1770829426570839

The thread shows team members updating channel topic metadata with key contacts/agents, which suggests operational contact points are being managed in Slack rather than easily found from docs.

Problem

Current documentation does not make support/escalation entry points easy to discover. Users and operators may not know where to find:

  • who to contact for incident reproduction/debug support
  • where support workflow starts (Cloud vs self-hosted)
  • which docs page to check first for troubleshooting vs FAQ

This creates friction and pushes critical routing info into Slack-only tribal knowledge.

Suggested Fix

  • Add a short, searchable "Get Help / Escalation" section to high-traffic entry pages (for example intro/FAQ/troubleshooting entry points).
  • Include clear keywords users are likely to search: support, escalation, incident, reproduce, troubleshooting, who to contact.
  • Add cross-links between Cloud intro/FAQ and troubleshooting pages so users can navigate quickly to the correct path.
  • Add one concise decision flow: "I have an outage", "I need product usage help", "I found a potential bug".
  • Ensure page titles and headings include support-oriented terms to improve site search results.
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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits February 11, 2026 17:08
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Co-authored-by: kwannoel <47273164+kwannoel@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Improve discoverability of support/escalation contact guidance in docs Add support/escalation guidance to high-traffic documentation pages Feb 11, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from kwannoel February 11, 2026 17:13
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