--- apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1 kind: PrometheusRule metadata: creationTimestamp: "2026-02-17T12:49:35Z" generation: 1 labels: app.kubernetes.io/component: prometheus app.kubernetes.io/instance: k8s app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: cluster-monitoring-operator app.kubernetes.io/name: prometheus app.kubernetes.io/part-of: openshift-monitoring app.kubernetes.io/version: 3.5.0 prometheus: k8s role: alert-rules managedFields: - apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1 fieldsType: FieldsV1 fieldsV1: f:metadata: f:labels: .: {} f:app.kubernetes.io/component: {} f:app.kubernetes.io/instance: {} f:app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: {} f:app.kubernetes.io/name: {} f:app.kubernetes.io/part-of: {} f:app.kubernetes.io/version: {} f:prometheus: {} f:role: {} f:spec: .: {} f:groups: .: {} k:{"name":"prometheus"}: .: {} f:name: {} f:rules: {} manager: operator operation: Update time: "2026-02-17T12:49:35Z" name: prometheus-k8s-prometheus-rules namespace: openshift-monitoring resourceVersion: "9151" uid: 2f3fd585-4f2e-4d8b-bb04-fe7ad7bb2b43 spec: groups: - name: prometheus rules: - alert: PrometheusBadConfig annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has failed to reload its configuration. summary: Failed Prometheus configuration reload. expr: | # Without max_over_time, failed scrapes could create false negatives, see # https://www.robustperception.io/alerting-on-gauges-in-prometheus-2-0 for details. max_over_time(prometheus_config_last_reload_successful{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) == 0 for: 10m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusSDRefreshFailure annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has failed to refresh SD with mechanism {{$labels.mechanism}}. summary: Failed Prometheus SD refresh. expr: | increase(prometheus_sd_refresh_failures_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[10m]) > 0 for: 20m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusKubernetesListWatchFailures annotations: description: Kubernetes service discovery of Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} is experiencing {{ printf "%.0f" $value }} failures with LIST/WATCH requests to the Kubernetes API in the last 5 minutes. runbook_url: https://github.com/openshift/runbooks/blob/master/alerts/cluster-monitoring-operator/PrometheusKubernetesListWatchFailures.md summary: Requests in Kubernetes SD are failing. expr: | increase(prometheus_sd_kubernetes_failures_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusNotificationQueueRunningFull annotations: description: Alert notification queue of Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} is running full. summary: Prometheus alert notification queue predicted to run full in less than 30m. expr: | # Without min_over_time, failed scrapes could create false negatives, see # https://www.robustperception.io/alerting-on-gauges-in-prometheus-2-0 for details. ( predict_linear(prometheus_notifications_queue_length{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m], 60 * 30) > min_over_time(prometheus_notifications_queue_capacity{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) ) for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusErrorSendingAlertsToSomeAlertmanagers annotations: description: '{{ printf "%.1f" $value }}% of alerts sent by Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} to Alertmanager {{$labels.alertmanager}} were affected by errors.' summary: More than 1% of alerts sent by Prometheus to a specific Alertmanager were affected by errors. expr: | ( rate(prometheus_notifications_errors_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) / rate(prometheus_notifications_sent_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) ) * 100 > 1 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusNotConnectedToAlertmanagers annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} is not connected to any Alertmanagers. summary: Prometheus is not connected to any Alertmanagers. expr: | # Without max_over_time, failed scrapes could create false negatives, see # https://www.robustperception.io/alerting-on-gauges-in-prometheus-2-0 for details. max_over_time(prometheus_notifications_alertmanagers_discovered{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) < 1 for: 10m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusTSDBReloadsFailing annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has detected {{$value | humanize}} reload failures over the last 3h. summary: Prometheus has issues reloading blocks from disk. expr: | increase(prometheus_tsdb_reloads_failures_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[3h]) > 0 for: 4h labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusTSDBCompactionsFailing annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has detected {{$value | humanize}} compaction failures over the last 3h. summary: Prometheus has issues compacting blocks. expr: | increase(prometheus_tsdb_compactions_failed_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[3h]) > 0 for: 4h labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusNotIngestingSamples annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} is not ingesting samples. summary: Prometheus is not ingesting samples. expr: | ( sum without(type) (rate(prometheus_tsdb_head_samples_appended_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m])) <= 0 and ( sum without(scrape_job) (prometheus_target_metadata_cache_entries{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}) > 0 or sum without(rule_group) (prometheus_rule_group_rules{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}) > 0 ) ) for: 10m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} is dropping {{ printf "%.4g" $value }} samples/s with different values but duplicated timestamp. runbook_url: https://github.com/openshift/runbooks/blob/master/alerts/cluster-monitoring-operator/PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps.md summary: Prometheus is dropping samples with duplicate timestamps. expr: | rate(prometheus_target_scrapes_sample_duplicate_timestamp_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 1h labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusOutOfOrderTimestamps annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} is dropping {{ printf "%.4g" $value }} samples/s with timestamps arriving out of order. summary: Prometheus drops samples with out-of-order timestamps. expr: | rate(prometheus_target_scrapes_sample_out_of_order_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 1h labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusRemoteStorageFailures annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} failed to send {{ printf "%.1f" $value }}% of the samples to {{ $labels.remote_name}}:{{ $labels.url }} runbook_url: https://github.com/openshift/runbooks/blob/master/alerts/cluster-monitoring-operator/PrometheusRemoteStorageFailures.md summary: Prometheus fails to send samples to remote storage. expr: | ( (rate(prometheus_remote_storage_failed_samples_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) or rate(prometheus_remote_storage_samples_failed_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m])) / ( (rate(prometheus_remote_storage_failed_samples_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) or rate(prometheus_remote_storage_samples_failed_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m])) + (rate(prometheus_remote_storage_succeeded_samples_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) or rate(prometheus_remote_storage_samples_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m])) ) ) * 100 > 1 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusRemoteWriteBehind annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} remote write is {{ printf "%.1f" $value }}s behind for {{ $labels.remote_name}}:{{ $labels.url }}. summary: Prometheus remote write is behind. expr: | # Use the metric added in https://github.com/openshift/prometheus/pull/262 and related PRs. # Without max_over_time, failed scrapes could create false negatives, see # https://www.robustperception.io/alerting-on-gauges-in-prometheus-2-0 for details. ( max_over_time(prometheus_remote_storage_queue_highest_timestamp_seconds{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) - max_over_time(prometheus_remote_storage_queue_highest_sent_timestamp_seconds{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) ) > 120 for: 15m labels: severity: info - alert: PrometheusRemoteWriteDesiredShards annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} remote write desired shards calculation wants to run {{ $value }} shards for queue {{ $labels.remote_name}}:{{ $labels.url }}, which is more than the max of {{ printf `prometheus_remote_storage_shards_max{instance="%s",job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}` $labels.instance | query | first | value }}. summary: Prometheus remote write desired shards calculation wants to run more than configured max shards. expr: | # Without max_over_time, failed scrapes could create false negatives, see # https://www.robustperception.io/alerting-on-gauges-in-prometheus-2-0 for details. ( max_over_time(prometheus_remote_storage_shards_desired{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > max_over_time(prometheus_remote_storage_shards_max{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) ) for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusRuleFailures annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has failed to evaluate {{ printf "%.0f" $value }} rules in the last 5m. runbook_url: https://github.com/openshift/runbooks/blob/master/alerts/cluster-monitoring-operator/PrometheusRuleFailures.md summary: Prometheus is failing rule evaluations. expr: | increase(prometheus_rule_evaluation_failures_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusMissingRuleEvaluations annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has missed {{ printf "%.0f" $value }} rule group evaluations in the last 5m. summary: Prometheus is missing rule evaluations due to slow rule group evaluation. expr: | increase(prometheus_rule_group_iterations_missed_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusTargetLimitHit annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has dropped {{ printf "%.0f" $value }} targets because the number of targets exceeded the configured target_limit. summary: Prometheus has dropped targets because some scrape configs have exceeded the targets limit. expr: | increase(prometheus_target_scrape_pool_exceeded_target_limit_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusLabelLimitHit annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has dropped {{ printf "%.0f" $value }} targets because some samples exceeded the configured label_limit, label_name_length_limit or label_value_length_limit. summary: Prometheus has dropped targets because some scrape configs have exceeded the labels limit. expr: | increase(prometheus_target_scrape_pool_exceeded_label_limits_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusScrapeBodySizeLimitHit annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has failed {{ printf "%.0f" $value }} scrapes in the last 5m because some targets exceeded the configured body_size_limit. runbook_url: https://github.com/openshift/runbooks/blob/master/alerts/cluster-monitoring-operator/PrometheusScrapeBodySizeLimitHit.md summary: Prometheus has dropped some targets that exceeded body size limit. expr: | increase(prometheus_target_scrapes_exceeded_body_size_limit_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusScrapeSampleLimitHit annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} has failed {{ printf "%.0f" $value }} scrapes in the last 5m because some targets exceeded the configured sample_limit. summary: Prometheus has failed scrapes that have exceeded the configured sample limit. expr: | increase(prometheus_target_scrapes_exceeded_sample_limit_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0 for: 15m labels: severity: warning - alert: PrometheusTargetSyncFailure annotations: description: '{{ printf "%.0f" $value }} targets in Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} have failed to sync because invalid configuration was supplied.' runbook_url: https://github.com/openshift/runbooks/blob/master/alerts/cluster-monitoring-operator/PrometheusTargetSyncFailure.md summary: Prometheus has failed to sync targets. expr: | increase(prometheus_target_sync_failed_total{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[30m]) > 0 for: 5m labels: severity: critical - alert: PrometheusHighQueryLoad annotations: description: Prometheus {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.pod}} query API has less than 20% available capacity in its query engine for the last 15 minutes. summary: Prometheus is reaching its maximum capacity serving concurrent requests. expr: | avg_over_time(prometheus_engine_queries{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) / max_over_time(prometheus_engine_queries_concurrent_max{job=~"prometheus-k8s|prometheus-user-workload"}[5m]) > 0.8 for: 15m labels: severity: warning