Playbook: Post-Incident Validation

Goal

Ensure system state is healthy and operational after incident resolution.

Trigger

Immediately after resolving a major incident (e.g. downtime, crash, config error).

Checklist

• Verify affected services are running:

  systemctl status <service>
  

• Run end-user test (UI/API ping)
• Review logs:

  journalctl -u <service> --since "10 min ago"
  

• Confirm alerts are cleared
• Update incident log or ticket

Output

Postmortem summary (markdown or shared doc) + retrospective scheduling