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Incident Report & Root Cause Analysis Framework

Analyzes a technical failure (server crash, bug, process failure) and provides a structured RCA report.
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The Prompt

"Act as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). We recently experienced a system failure.

Incident Details: [Describe the event, e.g., 'The database went down for 45 minutes during peak traffic after a new deployment'].

Logs/Data: [Insert relevant logs or error messages].

Your Tasks:

The '5 Whys': Perform a 5 Whys analysis to get to the true root cause.

Impact Assessment: Categorize the severity and list affected services.

Remediation Plan: Suggest 3 immediate 'hotfixes' and 2 long-term structural changes to prevent recurrence.

Timeline: Draft a chronological sequence of events from 'Detection' to 'Resolution'."

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[Describe the event, e.g., 'The database went down for 45 minutes during peak traffic after a new deployment']
[Insert relevant logs or error messages]

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