Obsidian Incident Runbook

Overview

Systematic procedures for diagnosing and resolving Obsidian failures: plugin crashes, vault corruption, sync conflicts, performance degradation, and broken CSS/themes. Each section is a self-contained runbook -- jump to the relevant one.

Prerequisites

• Access to the affected Obsidian vault directory
• Developer Console access (Ctrl+Shift+I / Cmd+Option+I)
• Terminal access for filesystem operations
• Backup awareness (know where your backups are before making changes)

Instructions

Step 1: Quick Triage

Determine the category before diving in: