Templates · Engineering
Incident postmortem
What happened, minute by minute, who it affected, the root cause, and the fixes with owners — blameless by design.
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On the page
Summary · Impact · Timeline · Root cause · Went well · Went badly · Action items · Detection
Preview
Blameless. Name systems and decisions, not people. The goal is that this cannot happen the same way twice.
Summary
One paragraph: what broke, for how long, for whom.
Impact
Who | How | For how long |
|---|---|---|
Timeline
Time | What happened | Who noticed / did what |
|---|---|---|
Root cause
The mechanism, not the trigger. Ask why five times.
Went well
Went badly
Action items
Fix | Owner | Due | Done |
|---|---|---|---|
Detection
How we found out, and how we should have.
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