Incident timeline - checkout service outage 14:02 - Alert fired (checkout API error rate above 5%) 14:06 - On-call engineer acknowledges 14:14 - Root cause suspected (13:55 config change to payment gateway) 14:20 - Rollback initiated 14:31 - Rollback completed, error rate dropping 14:38 - Error rate back to baseline 14:40 - Incident declared resolved Total downtime (alert to resolution): 38 minutes. Postmortem summary: A config change deployed at 13:55 to the payment gateway caused checkout error rates to exceed 5% by 14:02. On-call rolled back the change by 14:31, and the incident was declared resolved at 14:40 once error rates returned to baseline, for a total of 38 minutes of impact.