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Blameless Incident Postmortem
Postmortem template for production incidents. Timeline, root cause, fix, prevention. Blameless.
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Within 48 hours of incident. Review in the team meeting. Action items get tracked, or it does not count.
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Write a blameless postmortem for this incident.
Incident: {{ONE LINE}}
Severity (1 to 4): {{S}}
Detected at: {{TIMESTAMP}}
Resolved at: {{TIMESTAMP}}
Customer impact: {{USERS / REVENUE}}
Root cause: {{ROOT}}
Format:
## Summary
1-paragraph plain English summary.
## Timeline
Timestamp · Event (UTC + IST)
## Impact
- Users affected
- Revenue or SLA impact
- External communications sent
## What went well
3 things.
## What did not go well
3 things. No names, only systems / processes.
## Root cause
Technical + procedural.
## Action items
Table: Action | Owner | Deadline | Status
## Learnings
2 to 3 lines for the team's collective memory.
Tone: factual, no blame. Process > people.Works with: Claude · Claude Code · ChatGPT · Cursor · Any model
By Rishi Jain
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