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Incident Progress

Stage 1
Alert Received
Stage 2
Constraint Validation
Stage 3
Staging Data Analysis
Stage 4
Root Cause Analysis
Stage 5
Incident Creation
Stage 6
Deduplication Fix
Stage 7
MERGE Recovery
Stage 8
Prevention & Closure
INCIDENT XP
900 XP
MERGE Status
FAILED
Snowflake MERGE operation failed
Incident Status
OPEN
Data Engineering investigation active
Data Quality
DUPLICATE KEYS
Duplicate customer IDs found in staging
Business Impact
HIGH
Customer dimension refresh blocked

Airflow DAG Monitoring

Customer File Ingested
Staging Load
Duplicate Key Check
Snowflake MERGE
Customer Master Update
Data Validation

Incident War Room

Business Operations
Customer reports are not reflecting today's updates.
Data Engineering Lead
Snowflake MERGE job failed due to duplicate CUSTOMER_ID records in staging.
Source Systems Team
Source system generated multiple updates for the same customer during batch processing.
Analytics Team
Customer dimension refresh is blocked until the MERGE issue is resolved.
MERGE Failure Timeline
Customer update ingestion failed during the Snowflake MERGE step because duplicate CUSTOMER_ID records existed in the staging layer, preventing successful upsert execution.
MERGE Failure Risk
Staging Data Load: 08:00 AM (SUCCESS) Duplicate Key Check: 08:10 AM (FAILED) MERGE Operation: 08:15 AM (ABORTED) Impact: Customer dimension not updated
🔴 HIGH PRIORITY INCIDENT

Failed Upserts / MERGE Incident

Investigate and resolve a production issue where Snowflake MERGE operations failed due to duplicate business keys in staging data, preventing customer records from being updated.

Pipeline
daily_customer_merge
Severity
HIGH
Customer update pipeline encountered a Snowflake MERGE failure after multiple records for the same CUSTOMER_ID were detected in the staging layer.

🔔 Alert Received

PagerDuty alerted the team that the Snowflake MERGE operation failed during the daily customer update pipeline.
Alert: MERGE Operation Failed Pipeline: daily_customer_updates Issue: Duplicate row detected during DML action Severity: HIGH

Root Cause Analysis

MERGE Failure Evidence
Component: Staging Customer Table
Duplicate CUSTOMER_ID Records Found
DETECTED
Component: Snowflake MERGE
Multiple Source Rows Matched Same Key
FAILED
Component: CUSTOMER_MASTER
Customer Updates Not Applied
CRITICAL
MERGE Health Metrics
Staging Records
1.1M
Duplicate CUSTOMER_IDs
2,350
MERGE Status
FAILED
Affected Customers
850K
Severity
HIGH

Production Engineering Workspace

Incident Decision Engine

Choose the safest production action to resolve the MERGE failure and restore customer data processing.