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OperateReliabilityOP-05

Review incident

Link an incident to the commits, pull requests and owners that likely caused it, and turn the resolution into a postmortem, a runbook and reliability work.

Product statusAvailable now

Context in4 required inputsIncident report and timeline · Recent commits and pull requests · Affected components
TransformationEngineer + Engineering Agent + Architecture AgentCode Analysis · Find Code Owners · Atlassian · Local Files
OutcomeIncident analysis with suspected cause, postmortem draft, runbook and backlog proposals.Artifact: Postmortem

Owner

Engineer

Human + Agent

Participants · Agents

Product ManagerQAEngineering AgentArchitecture Agent

Trigger

Event-drivenAn incident is resolved, or recurring incidents share a pattern.

Required context

JiraIncident report and timelineCodeRecent commits and pull requestsArchitectureAffected componentsJiraRelated bugs

Optional context

FilesLogs and monitoring dataJiraPrevious incidentsCustomer evidenceCustomer impact

Skills

Code AnalysisFind Code OwnersAtlassianLocal Files

Methods used inside this Activity: Blameless postmortem · Incident clustering by symptom, component and root cause

Activity steps

  1. 1Link the incident to suspect commits, pull requests and owners.
  2. 2Cluster with previous incidents by symptom, component and root cause.
  3. 3Draft the postmortem and the runbook.
  4. 4Propose reliability work for the backlog.

Output

Incident analysis with suspected cause, postmortem draft, runbook and backlog proposals.

Artifacts

Creates: Postmortem, Runbook

Updates: Jira bug

What good looks like

  • The cause is linked to code, not guessed.
  • Blameless.
  • Patterns across incidents are named.
  • Every action has an owner.

Quality gate

The engineering lead approves the postmortem and the reliability work.

Destination

ConfluenceJiraProduct Brain

Usually next

People and agents work from the same Product Brain. The owner stays accountable. Assigned agents prepare and check. A named person approves at the gate.

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