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# Blameless Postmortems

- Type: learning practice
- Group: Operations and risks
- Placement: Operations / Incidents and recovery
- [Source](<https://sre.google/workbook/postmortem-culture/>)

[HTML](https://dpm.cnonim.name/practices/postmortem/)

An incident review identifies the conditions behind a failure and concrete actions to improve the system.

## Relationships

- analyzes results from: [Incident Response / Incident Management](/practices/incident/en.md) (support)
- uses evidence from: [Observability](/practices/observability/en.md) (support)
- provides a different learning occasion from: [Retrospectives](/practices/retro/en.md) (comparison)
- is a practice in: [Site Reliability Engineering](/practices/sre/en.md) (structure)

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