# Template

A downloadable PDF postmortem template with sections for owner, timeline, contributing factors, and resolution, from the Postmortem Best Practices guide.

![Postmortem Template](/images/guides/postmortem-best-practices/Postmortems-Template.webp)

This is a standard template we use for postmortems at PagerDuty. Each section describes the type of information you will want to put in that section.

[Download](https://postmortems.pagerduty.com/assets/pdf/PostmortemTemplate.pdf) as a PDF to start using with your team.

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![Template](/images/guides/postmortem-best-practices/PostmortemTemplate_preview.webp)