postmortem-template.md

Post-Incident Review Template

This template provides a structured, blameless framework for reviewing incidents. Use it for any Sev-1 or Sev-2 incident within N business days of resolution. Game-day exercises (e.g., Issue 113) should also use this template as a dry run.

Metadata

Field	Value
Incident ID
Severity	Sev-1 / Sev-2 / Sev-3
Date of incident
Review date
Author(s)
Reviewers
Status	Draft / Final

Summary

Timeline

Time (UTC)	Event
	Incident detected
	Response initiated
	Mitigation applied
	Incident resolved

Impact

• Users affected:
• Funds at risk:
• Service downtime:
• Data integrity:

Root Cause

Contributing Factors

What Went Well

What Went Poorly

Action Items

#	Action	Owner	Priority	Due Date	Status
1			P0 / P1 / P2		Open
2			P0 / P1 / P2		Open
3			P0 / P1 / P2		Open

Lessons Learned

Supporting Evidence