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Summarize the pods-probe-web incident and its postmortem.
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A blameless postmortem drafted from the record: releases are named by version and time, never by who shipped them.

INC-79, the pods-probe-web crash loop, is resolved (the full investigation). Sam, the SRE, finishes the postmortem and publishes it.

1. Sam opens the postmortem​

In the investigation, Open the full record > Postmortem.

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The postmortem for pods-probe-web: SEV1, opened Sep 26, 23:51:40 PDT, investigation duration 17 minutes, the executive summary with the cause and the applied fix, and the impact, unconfirmed because no user-facing telemetry was available

The postmortem for pods-probe-web: SEV1, opened Sep 26, 23:51:40 PDT, investigation duration 17 minutes, the executive summary with the cause and the applied fix, and the impact, unconfirmed because no user-facing telemetry was availableThe postmortem for pods-probe-web: SEV1, opened Sep 26, 23:51:40 PDT, investigation duration 17 minutes, the executive summary with the cause and the applied fix, and the impact, unconfirmed because no user-facing telemetry was available
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The postmortem timeline from Investigation started (Nova) through Access to a sensitive read allowed (The team) and Fix approved (The team) to Nova applied the approved fix and verified pods-probe-web's health, then the primary root cause

The postmortem timeline from Investigation started (Nova) through Access to a sensitive read allowed (The team) and Fix approved (The team) to Nova applied the approved fix and verified pods-probe-web's health, then the primary root causeThe postmortem timeline from Investigation started (Nova) through Access to a sensitive read allowed (The team) and Fix approved (The team) to Nova applied the approved fix and verified pods-probe-web's health, then the primary root cause

2. Sam says what fixed it, when a person did​

Here Nova applied the fix, so there is nothing to answer. When a person takes the fix over, Nova asks once what fixed it (Card reference).

3. Sam publishes it​

On the Postmortem tab, Sam selects Publish, picks the team's postmortems GitHub repository and the #incidents Slack channel, and selects Publish (other ways to share it).

Result: the severity, the 17-minute investigation, the cause, the fix and an honest impact line, then every step with its time and who took it, filed where the team keeps postmortems.

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