# Incident Review Status: Seedling An incident review is a structured process for learning from a production failure. ## Mental Model The goal is not to assign blame. The goal is to understand why the system allowed the failure to happen and what can be improved. ## Useful Questions - What happened? - How did we detect it? - What made mitigation harder? - What assumptions were wrong? - What signals were missing? - What would prevent or reduce this class of failure next time? ## Related - [[Field Notes/Runbook]] - [[Field Notes/SLO]] - [[Topics/Production Engineering]]