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    1. Working with incidents
    2. Create incidents manually
    3. Post mortems
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  14. Other API
    1. Metadata

Post mortems

Post mortems are short summaries of incidents. They typically describe why the incident happened, an estimated cost, and how to prevent similar incidents in the future.

The best teams write and share their post mortems after every significant incident.

To write a post mortem, add a comment to an incident including "post mortem", like in the example below:

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