jargon

Backend & systems·Observability and operations

you write up what happened focusing on why the system allowed it, not on who typed the command.

Blameless postmortem

Also calledincident review, retrospective

A structured review of an incident that treats human error as a symptom of system design. The premise is practical rather than kind: people who expect blame do not share the details you need. The output should be a small number of committed actions, not a narrative nobody reads.

Commonly confused with