Incident Postmortem Generator
PROGenerate comprehensive, blameless incident postmortems with structured RCA methodologies, timeline reconstruction, impact quantification, and actionable follow-up items for SRE and DevOps teams.
Example Usage
Generate an incident postmortem for:
- Incident: Database connection pool exhaustion causing API timeouts
- Duration: 45 minutes (14:23 - 15:08 UTC)
- Affected: ~2,000 active users, 15% error rate spike
- Root causes: Recent deployment increased query load; alerting threshold misconfigured
- Severity: P1
- Include financial impact: true
Structure with: Executive summary, detailed timeline, 5 Whys RCA, contributing factors, action items with owners, and lessons learned about our release process.
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Suggested Customization
| Description | Default | Your Value |
|---|---|---|
| Priority level (P1/P2/P3/P4) determining postmortem depth and urgency | P2 | |
| Root cause analysis approach: 5_whys, fishbone, fault_tree, or hybrid | 5_whys | |
| Whether to quantify financial cost of the incident | false | |
| Template complexity: lightweight (1-page), standard, comprehensive (with security/compliance) | standard | |
| Integration for action items: jira, github, linear, notion, asana | jira | |
| Distribution: engineering_team, all_staff, leadership_only, public | engineering_team |
Research Sources
This skill was built using research from these authoritative sources:
- Blameless Postmortem Best Practices Comprehensive guide on conducting blameless postmortems, essential components, templates, and culture-building
- Incident Postmortem Template Ready-to-use template with structured sections for summary, timeline, RCA, impact, and action items
- Mastering Blameless Postmortems Best practices emphasizing question framing and Crucial Accountability Framework
- The Do's and Don'ts of Postmortems Practical guidance avoiding blame and creating inclusive environments
- PagerDuty Postmortem Template Industry-standard template covering what happened, factors, resolution, and action items
- Blameless Postmortem Guideline (DevCoP) Comprehensive guideline with do's/don'ts, templates, meeting structure, and publication strategy
- Step-By-Step Guide to Root Cause Analysis Modern RCA methodology using 5 Whys, Fishbone, automated correlation, and evidence gathering
- Effective Incident Postmortem Templates 2025 Templates with specialized sections for security, compliance, and impact quantification
- Role of Postmortems in Modern SRE Practices Using observability tools, data collection, real-time analysis, and follow-up mechanisms
- Reddit r/SRE Discussions Real-world SRE perspectives on postmortem challenges and documentation