Postmortem Format

${Component} Postmortem

Date

• When happned: yyyy-mm-dd
• When detected: yyyy-mm-dd
• When resolved: yyyy-mm-dd

Authors

• full-name
• full-name

Current status

• Resolved, In-progress

Summary

Short summary of an incident

Impact

Current impact and potential impact

Root Causes

What is the root cause of the incident.

Trigger

What makes the incident happen.

Resolution

Steps to resolve the incident in detail.

Detection

How the incident is detected.

Action Items

Summarize any action items to be done (e.g. Fix bugs, Write documentation ...)

References

• https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/postmortem-culture/
• https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/postmortem/