Incident Postmortem
ProWrite a blameless postmortem report for production incidents
About the Incident Postmortem Prompt Template
This technical template assigns the AI the role of a site reliability engineer and incident response specialist, so the prompt it builds is framed by genuine subject-matter expertise rather than a generic request.
What it does: Write a blameless postmortem for the your incident title incident that occurred on your incident date.
You fill in 9 fields (8 required, 1 optional), and SurePrompts assembles a complete, structured prompt you can paste straight into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
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How to Use This Template
- 1
Fill in Incident Title
e.g., Payment Processing Outage, Database Connection Pool Exhaustion
- 2
Fill in Incident Date
e.g., 2024-03-15
- 3
Fill in Severity
Enter the severity for your prompt.
- 4
Fill in Incident Duration
e.g., 2 hours 15 minutes
- 5
Fill in User/Business Impact
How many users affected? Revenue lost? SLA breached?
- 6
Fill in Incident Timeline
Key events with timestamps (detection, investigation, mitigation, resolution)
- 7
Fill in Root Cause
What actually caused the incident? Technical details
- 8
Fill in How It Was Resolved
What fixed it? Temporary mitigation vs permanent fix
- 9
Fill in Contributing Factors
Other factors that made this worse or delayed resolution
- 10
Copy your prompt
Click the copy button to copy your generated prompt, then paste it into your preferred AI tool.
Template Fields
Every field below maps to a part of the finished Incident Postmortem prompt. Required fields shape the core request; optional fields add detail and control.
A required input that takes a short line of text.
Example: e.g., Payment Processing Outage, Database Connection Pool Exhaustion
A required input that takes a short line of text.
Example: e.g., 2024-03-15
A required input that takes one option from a list. Choose from 4 preset choices.
Available choices:
A required input that takes a short line of text.
Example: e.g., 2 hours 15 minutes
A required input that takes a longer, multi-line value.
Example: How many users affected? Revenue lost? SLA breached?
A required input that takes a longer, multi-line value.
Example: Key events with timestamps (detection, investigation, mitigation, resolution)
A required input that takes a longer, multi-line value.
Example: What actually caused the incident? Technical details
A required input that takes a longer, multi-line value.
Example: What fixed it? Temporary mitigation vs permanent fix
An optional input that takes a longer, multi-line value.
Example: Other factors that made this worse or delayed resolution
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