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Data Incident Post-Mortem

Structured root-cause analysis of data quality incidents to prevent recurrence and improve data pipelines.

Updated June 2026
The prompt
Incident: {{incident_title}}. Date: {{incident_date}}. Severity: {{severity_level}}. Detection: {{detection_method}}. Duration: {{duration}}. Impact: {{impact_description}}.

Conduct post-mortem:
1. Timeline: trace exact sequence of events
2. Root cause analysis: {{primary_cause}}{{secondary_causes}}
3. Why wasn't this caught? (monitoring, alerting, testing gaps)
4. Downstream impact: which {{metric_impacted}} were affected, by how much?
5. Corrective actions (immediate vs. long-term)
6. Monitoring additions to prevent recurrence
7. Communication plan: who needs to know, what message?
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Variables

Brief incident title
When incident occurred
Severity (critical/high/medium/low)
How was it discovered?
How long did impact last?
What broke or was incorrect?
Primary root cause
Contributing factors
Metrics/reports affected

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Author

AI Khazna

License

Security

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