A gentle reminder that not all incidents require a Root Cause Analysis.

Mom: The internet isn’t working. I tried to check the weather.

Me: Oh? Interesting. Let me see.

Mom: Can you fix it?

Me: Well, technically the issue may be related to VRRP state transitions resulting from interface renumbering after a storage migration.

Mom: …

Me: The floating virtual IP appears to have become marooned.

Mom: I wanted to check the weather.

Me: Okay, so. The DNS control plane has experienced a minor disruption.

Mom: I wanted to check the weather.

Me: Well, looks like there’s a possibility that the enp6s0 device no longer exists.

Mom: I wanted. To check. The weather.

Blameless postmortem? Good luck.