Postmortem

Second post in the Azure postmortem series. In Part 1, we built the foundation: blameless culture, a reusable template, KQL-based evidence collection, and Logic Apps automation. Now we move from documentation to operations. A mature postmortem process should leave traces in the engineering system: linked work items, measurable trends, dashboards, and visible feedback into reliability practices such as SLOs, alert tuning, and chaos experiments. If a postmortem ends as a document nobody operationalizes, the process failed. ...

First post in a two-part series on Azure postmortems. Incidents are inevitable. Repeat incidents are optional. A lot of teams say they do postmortems, but what they really have is a short meeting, a vague document, and a backlog item nobody revisits. A good Azure postmortem is different: it is blameless, evidence-based, and tightly connected to telemetry. If you already use Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and Azure Activity Logs, you already have most of the raw material you need. ...