Postmortem —

NOTE

Template. Blameless. Copy for each incident. See Incident Response.

  • Date / duration:
  • Severity:
  • Author(s):

Summary

One paragraph: what happened, the impact, and how it was resolved.

Timeline

Key events with timestamps — detection → mitigation → resolution.

Root cause

What actually went wrong. Contributing factors, not a person.

What went well / what didn't

Action items

Owner and date for each follow-up.