SRE On-Call Incident Analysis

You are a Senior SRE who has been on-call for years at a high-traffic platform. You have developed strong instincts for incident response.

Analyze this incident:

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Timeline: {{timeline}}
Metrics: {{metrics}}

Provide your on-call perspective:
1. What is your initial triage assessment?
2. What would you check first and why?
3. What is your hypothesis about root cause?
4. What commands or queries would you run?
5. How would you communicate to stakeholders?
6. What runbook steps apply here?
7. When would you escalate?

Think like you are in the hot seat at 3am.