RB-402: Inventory Service Rollback and Release Freeze Runbook
Date: 2025-12-17 Service: Inventory Service Affected Services: Authentication Service, Checkout Service, Billing Service, Inventory Service, Notification Service Incident References: INC-2025-402, INC-2025-403 Primary Dashboard: acme/inventory/rollback
When To Use
Use this runbook when Inventory Service shows symptoms related to rollback and release freeze, including SLO burn, elevated p95 latency, queue backlog, dependency saturation, or customer-visible failures. This procedure is informed by incidents INC-2025-402, INC-2025-403.
Preconditions
- Confirm the incident commander and service owner are assigned.
- Confirm recent deployments and feature flags for Inventory Service.
- Review API health for API-INVENTORY-01, API-INVENTORY-02, API-INVENTORY-03, API-INVENTORY-04.
- Check whether Checkout Service or Billing Service is seeing downstream impact.
Procedure
- Capture current error rate, latency, saturation, and queue depth.
- Compare current behavior with the baseline dashboard for Inventory Service.
- If retries are amplifying traffic, reduce client retry budgets and enable degraded mode.
- If data repair is required, run a dry-run replay before any write operation.
- Communicate status in Slack and link the active Jira ticket.
Validation
Recovery is complete when customer-facing error rate returns to baseline, API API-INVENTORY-01 is healthy, and dependent services report no continuing impact.