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Key factsIncident title

SeverityAffected services

Impact start UTC

Impact end UTC

On-call rotationCustomer impactStatus page link

Executive summary2–3 sentences for non-technical stakeholdersWrite this last. Front-load it for executives.

Timeline

Incident date

Shown at the top of the timeline. UTC.Timeline events UTC

Use UTC. Click a time to open the picker, or tap Now on the row.

Contributors, mitigators, risks

Contributors — what increased likelihood

Mitigators — what limited damage

Risks — what could make this worse next time

Diagnostics & learningsDiagnostics and evidenceTechnical learningsCoordination learningsProduct learnings

Action items

Follow-up actions

SMART actions: owner, what, by when. Track completion visibly.

Theme tagsComma-separated. Track trends across incidents.

AppendixAttachments, diagrams, diffs

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# Incident Post-mortem: Brief incident description

## Key Facts

- **Severity:** Sev-2
- **Impact start:** YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC
- **Impact end:** YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC
- **Affected services:** List affected services
- **On-call rotation:** Primary + secondary responders
- **Customer impact:** X minutes of downtime, Y users affected, $Z revenue impact
- **Status page:** Link to status page updates

## Executive Summary

Write this last. 2–3 sentences for non-technical stakeholders: what broke, how bad it was, what you fixed, what you are doing to prevent recurrence.

## Timeline

**YYYY-MM-DD**

- **HH:MM UTC:** First alerts fire
- **HH:MM UTC:** Incident declared
- **HH:MM UTC:** Mitigation applied
- **HH:MM UTC:** All-clear declared

## Contributors, Mitigators, Risks

### Contributors

- What technical, human, or external conditions increased likelihood?

### Mitigators

- What limited blast radius? Circuit breakers, fast detection, graceful degradation.

### Risks

- What systemic risks remain that could make the next incident worse?

## Diagnostics and Evidence

Screenshots of dashboards, log snippets, traces. Note what you could not determine.

## Learnings

**Technical:**

What the code/infra taught you.

**Coordination:**

What response and communication taught you.

**Product:**

What the customer experience taught you.

## Follow-ups

- [ ] **@team:** Describe specific, measurable action **[Due date]**

**Theme tags:** [capacity, configuration, monitoring, communications]

## Appendix

Architecture diagrams, configuration diffs, customer communication timeline, related incidents.

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Based on the Hyperping post-mortem playbook

This template follows the blameless, systems-thinking approach detailed in our complete guide to incident post-mortems. Contributors, mitigators, risks — not single root cause. SMART action items with owners and due dates. Theme tags for trend analysis.

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