LLM Postmortem Generation
Auto-drafted incident postmortems
Overview
Draft structured, blameless postmortems from incident data automatically. AI ensures every outage produces documented learnings and actionable improvements without manual writing overhead.
Why It Matters
Postmortems capture learnings but rarely get written. AI drafts structured, blameless reports from incident data - ensuring knowledge isn't lost.
The Risk
Without postmortems, you repeat the same incidents. Organizational learning stops. New team members don't understand why systems are built certain ways. Incidents become folklore instead of documented knowledge.
Implementation Components
A complete implementation of this capability includes:
- Integration with incident tracking (PagerDuty, Jira)
- Timeline construction from logs and alerts
- LLM-generated incident summary and impact
- Blameless language and systems-thinking framing
- Action item extraction and prioritization
- Template enforcement and consistency
AI Integration
This capability leverages AI/LLM technology to enhance its functionality.
Trigger
Incident resolved
Input
Incident timeline + resolution notes + affected systems
Output
Structured postmortem draft + action items + related incidents
Implementation Pattern
- 1Collect incident timeline and resolution data
- 2Send to LLM with postmortem template
- 3Generate structured draft
- 4Team reviews and publishes
Pipeline Coverage
This continuous capability monitors and applies to the following pipeline phases:
Tool Examples
These are examples, not endorsements. Choose what fits your context.
Dependencies
Enhanced by (more effective with)
Same Layer
Other capabilities in this continuous layer
- •#54 Severity Definition
- •#55 Incident Timeline
- •#56 Status Communication
- •#57 Post-Incident Review
- •#58 Change Ledger
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