Postmortem Template Generator

# Incident Postmortem: [Incident Title]

**Severity:** P2
**Date:** 2026-05-03
**Author:** [Your Name]
**Status:** Resolved

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## Summary

[Brief description of the incident]

## Detection

**Detected at:** [When was it detected?]
**Detected by:** [How was it detected?]

## Resolution

**Resolved at:** [When was it resolved?]
**Time to resolution:** [Duration]

## Impact

- [Number of affected users/systems]
- [Duration of impact]
- [Business impact]

## Root Cause

[What was the underlying cause?]

## Timeline

| Time | Event |
|------|-------|
| HH:MM | Incident detected |
| | Investigation started |
| | Root cause identified |
| HH:MM | Fix deployed |
| | Incident resolved |

## Action Items

| Action | Owner | Priority | Due Date |
|--------|-------|----------|----------|
| [Preventive measure 1] | [Team] | High | [Date] |
| [Monitoring improvement] | [Team] | Medium | [Date] |
| [Process change] | [Team] | Low | [Date] |

## Lessons Learned

1. What went well?
   - [What worked during incident response]

2. What went wrong?
   - [What could have been better]

3. Where did we get lucky?
   - [Any factors that limited the blast radius]

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*This postmortem follows the blameless postmortem methodology. The goal is to learn and improve, not to assign blame.*