Postmortem generation
Turn any complete analysis into a Markdown postmortem ready to paste into your team's incident document or PR description
After an analysis completes, you can export a postmortem — a Markdown document summarizing the incident in the standard format your team probably already uses. Saves writing it from scratch.
Where to find it
Analysis detail page → Generate postmortem button (top-right).
It produces a ready-to-paste Markdown document and lets you:
- Copy to clipboard
- Download as
.mdfile - (Pro+) AI-polish the draft before exporting
Sections in the output
| Section | Sourced from |
|---|---|
| Title | The analysis summary, normalized into title-case |
| Timeline | The analysis's timeline field, in human-readable form |
| Root cause | The structured root-cause description |
| Impact | Affected services and their roles |
| Resolution | The suggested actions, formatted as numbered steps |
| Detection method | Whether the analysis was triggered manually, by chat, by Watchdog, or by support desk |
| Time-to-detect / Time-to-respond | If the analysis links to a Watchdog firing, the gap between firing and resolution feedback |
AI-polish (Pro+)
Click AI-polish before exporting. The AI rewrites the draft for flow, tone, and consistency — especially useful when:
- The analysis was generated from terse log evidence
- You'll share the postmortem externally (with customers, stakeholders)
- Your team's postmortem template expects a narrative voice
The polish pass keeps facts intact — it doesn't add or remove findings, just rewrites the prose.
| Plan | AI-polish available |
|---|---|
| Starter | No |
| Pro | Yes |
| Business | Yes |
| Enterprise | Yes |
Custom templates
The default template follows a common SRE-style postmortem layout. To use a different layout (e.g., your company's specific template):
Generate with the default template
Click Generate postmortem to get the structured Markdown.
Map fields into your template
The output uses standard headings; copy the relevant sections into your team's template.
Save your modified version externally
Postmortems aren't versioned in SigSentry — generate, paste, then maintain the canonical version in your wiki, Notion, GitHub repo, or wherever your team already stores them.
Limits
| Plan | Postmortems per month |
|---|---|
| Starter | 5 |
| Pro | Unlimited |
| Business | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Unlimited |
The limit is on generation, not analyses. You can generate a postmortem from any analysis, including older ones.