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The last incident report just told people to be more careful, and three months later it happened again.
What you'll have at the end
A five-section writeup ending in one system-level action item with a named owner and a real date
You need
A data incident that has now happened at least twice before in the same shape, with both earlier postmortem write-ups still readable, and access to the pipeline's own ingestion logs and the raw incoming payloads for the incident that just happened again.
Not covered
Negotiating a formal change-notification agreement with the outside vendor whose payload keeps shifting. This recipe fixes what the pipeline itself controls, not what the vendor promises to do.
Draft a data contract that survives a schema change
reach for this instead when the other side will actually agree to a contract up front; this recipe assumes an outside vendor who won't sign one, so the whole fix has to live on your side.
Your loudest data quality alert stopped meaning anything
start there instead if the real complaint is that alerts fire constantly and nobody trusts them, not that a postmortem's own fix never gets written down.
Checked 26 Aug 2026
Part of the Data Observability cookbook