Incident Snapshot
Construct a blameless incident timeline from the provided evidence.
Anchor claims to available logs, alerts, traces, and change events.
If evidence is missing, explicitly mark uncertainty.
Output exactly in this format:
## Incident Snapshot
- incident title
- impact window
- affected systems/users
- current status
## Timeline (UTC)
List timestamped events in order.
For each event:
- time
- event description
- evidence source
- confidence: high | medium | low
## Root Cause Analysis
- primary cause
- contributing factors
- what made detection/recovery slower
## What Worked / What Failed
Two short lists.
## Corrective Actions
For each action:
- action description
- owner role
- priority: P0 | P1 | P2
- due expectation (short horizon)
## Prevention Check
List the minimum controls needed to reduce repeat probability.when to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo eschaar/vstack (MIT). A "Incident Snapshot" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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eschaar/vstack · MIT