Site Reliability Engineering
Postmortem Quality Checker
Paste postmortem content to detect blame language, vague action items, incomplete timelines, and shallow root cause analysis.
No data is transmitted — everything runs locallyTool
About this tool
Postmortem Quality Checker
The Postmortem Quality Checker detects blame language, vague action items, shallow root cause analysis, and missing timeline or follow-up components.
• Review a draft postmortem before publishing to check for blame language
• Identify action items that are too vague to be actionable
• Check that five-whys analysis reaches a systemic cause rather than human error
• Audit a postmortem database for quality patterns during a process improvement initiative
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FAQ
What does this tool tell you?
The Postmortem Quality Checker detects blame language, vague action items, shallow root cause analysis, and missing timeline or follow-up components.
What affects the result most?
Blameless postmortem: focus on system/process failures, not individual blame. Five whys: keep asking why until a systemic root cause is reached — not 'human error'. Timeline completeness: events from first symptom through resolution — 5-minute granularity.
How should I use the result?
Treat the tool's output as a first-pass check, not a proof of correctness. A clean pass means no issues in the patterns this tool recognizes; a failure points to a specific problem you can investigate in your source. The underlying spec is the authoritative source for edge cases.
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