Incident Checklist

Use this when something is broken.

• What is the user impact?
• Is data at risk?
• Can we disable the broken path?
• Can we roll back?
• Who needs to know?

• What changed recently?
• Can we reproduce?
• Which boundary is failing?
• What logs prove the failure?
• What metrics changed?
• Is the database healthy?
• Are external services healthy?

• What is the smallest safe mitigation?
• What is the root cause fix?
• What test or check proves it?
• What should be monitored after?

• Timeline.
• Impact.
• Root cause.
• Detection gap.
• Fix.
• Prevention.
• Owner and deadline for follow-ups.