postmortem
5 posts — newest first.
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How to Write a Postmortem Someone Will Actually Read
A practical template for blameless postmortems: when to write one, what each section is for, how to word it, and a small linter that catches the usual mistakes.
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The Generators Were Fine. The Sensor Was on the Wrong Side of the Breaker.
Google's final report on the europe-west2 zone outage: a check that measured the wrong thing, redundancy lost to maintenance, and why multi-zone still degraded.
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The Mitigation Was the Outage: Reading Google's us-central1 Storage Report Like an SRE
Google's preliminary report on the 8 Oct Cloud Storage incident: an optimisation exhausted the nodes it meant to relieve, and emergency capacity wasn't there.
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Agents are deleting production and nobody is writing the postmortem
Your incident template assumes a deterministic system and a human decision-maker. Agent incidents have neither. Five sections that fix the template.
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Observability and incident response — the SRE basics
A primer on observability (logs, metrics, traces) and incident response (roles, severities, blameless postmortems) — the disciplines every SRE team runs.