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Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Template 🚨

Incident ID: [Date-Title] Date: [YYYY-MM-DD] Authors: [Names] Status: [Draft / Review / Final]

1. Incident Summary

Briefly describe what happened, the impact (users affected, downtime), and the severity.

2. Timeline

Detailed timeline of events (UTC).

  • [HH:MM] - Issue detected via [Monitoring/User Report].
  • [HH:MM] - Investigation started.
  • [HH:MM] - Root cause identified as [cause].
  • [HH:MM] - Fix applied [describe fix].
  • [HH:MM] - Service restored.

3. Root Cause

The fundamental reason the incident occurred.

  • Direct Cause: [What triggered the failure?]
  • Underlying Cause: [Why was the system vulnerable? e.g., configuration error, code bug, capacity limit]

4. Resolution

How was the immediate issue fixed?

5. Corrective & Preventive Measures

Action items to prevent recurrence.

ID Action Item Owner Priority Status
1 [e.g., Update alert thresholds] [Name] High TODO
2 [e.g., Fix bug in code] [Name] High TODO
3 [e.g., Update documentation] [Name] Medium TODO