What is the purpose of a post-incident review and what should it produce?

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What is the purpose of a post-incident review and what should it produce?

Post-incident reviews are blameless retrospectives conducted after an incident to understand what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent it from recurring. The goal is to turn an event into concrete improvements, so the output should be actionable learnings, a set of action items, assigned owners, and clear deadlines. This structure keeps the focus on improving systems and processes, not assigning fault, and it helps feed changes into runbooks, monitoring, and changes so future incidents are less likely or less severe. The other options don’t fit because they describe activities that aren’t about learning from a past incident and turning that into concrete follow-ups: blaming people during a live incident, reporting uptime without addressing root causes, or preemptively checking to prevent outages before they occur.

Post-incident reviews are blameless retrospectives conducted after an incident to understand what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent it from recurring. The goal is to turn an event into concrete improvements, so the output should be actionable learnings, a set of action items, assigned owners, and clear deadlines. This structure keeps the focus on improving systems and processes, not assigning fault, and it helps feed changes into runbooks, monitoring, and changes so future incidents are less likely or less severe.

The other options don’t fit because they describe activities that aren’t about learning from a past incident and turning that into concrete follow-ups: blaming people during a live incident, reporting uptime without addressing root causes, or preemptively checking to prevent outages before they occur.

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