Incident Root Cause Analyzer

This skill provides a comprehensive methodology for analyzing production incidents in distributed systems, with special focus on cascading failures, resource contention, and backpressure propagation.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Analyzing production incidents with timeout errors or performance degradation
• Investigating cascading failures across multiple services
• Identifying resource contention and backpressure issues
• Tracing root causes through metrics, logs, and traces
• Generating evidence-based root cause analysis reports

Analysis Methodology

Phase 1: Data Collection and Preparation