danluu/post-mortems resource
A collection of postmortems. Sorry for the delay in merging PRs! observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
72/100
- Activity 88
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4049
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 72
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
12275 stars · 500 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
A curated collection of links to public postmortems (incident write-ups) from companies like AWS, Cloudflare, and CircleCI, organized by failure category such as config errors, hardware failures, and database issues. It serves as a learning resource for engineers studying how production outages happen and how they are resolved.
Use cases
- find real-world postmortems to learn from
- study common causes of production outages
- research incident response patterns
- prepare for on-call and incident reviews
- find examples of cascading failures and config errors
- build a reliability engineering reading list
When to choose
- you want a large, categorized index of real incident write-ups
- you are learning SRE or reliability engineering from case studies
- you want entertaining, educational outage stories
When to avoid
- you need a tool for writing or managing your own postmortems
- you want runnable software rather than a link collection
- you need formal incident management workflows
Facets
learning-resource · maturity active
documentation developer-tools developer-tools tutorials awesome-lists cross-platform postmortems incident-response reliability outages sre curated-list
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4b4cf0b48c01
- homepage: http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8554ce1c18c9
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| danluu/post-mortems | main | 72 |
For agents
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