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Real-World SRE
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Real-World SRE

by Nat Welch
August 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Why write a postmortem?

In the previous chapter, we talked about incident response. When responding to an incident, we mentioned that you need to focus on bringing the system back to a healthy state as quickly as possible. This need often prevents you from finding out the root cause of the incident. The writing of a postmortem document is the right time to figure out what happened. How did the process die? What part of the system caused instability? How long after the incident began did we notice this? Why did other systems fail?

We carry out a postmortem separately from the initial incident so that we can be thorough and meticulous. We must make sure that we have all of the data and that we fix the issue entirely. Often, during an incident, adrenaline ...

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