# Prometheus Alert Rules # Red Panda Approved 🐼 # Deployed to: /etc/prometheus/alert_rules.yml {% raw %} groups: # ============================================================================ # Node/Infrastructure Alerts # ============================================================================ - name: node_alerts rules: - alert: InstanceDown expr: up == 0 for: 2m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Instance {{ $labels.instance }} is down" description: "{{ $labels.instance }} of job {{ $labels.job }} has been down for more than 2 minutes." - alert: HighCPUUsage expr: 100 - (avg by(instance) (rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[5m])) * 100) > 80 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High CPU usage on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "CPU usage is above 80% on {{ $labels.instance }} (current value: {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}%)" - alert: CriticalCPUUsage expr: 100 - (avg by(instance) (rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[5m])) * 100) > 95 for: 2m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Critical CPU usage on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "CPU usage is above 95% on {{ $labels.instance }} (current value: {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}%)" - alert: HighMemoryUsage expr: (1 - (node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes / node_memory_MemTotal_bytes)) * 100 > 80 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High memory usage on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "Memory usage is above 80% on {{ $labels.instance }} (current value: {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}%)" - alert: CriticalMemoryUsage expr: (1 - (node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes / node_memory_MemTotal_bytes)) * 100 > 95 for: 2m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Critical memory usage on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "Memory usage is above 95% on {{ $labels.instance }} (current value: {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}%)" - alert: DiskSpaceLow expr: (node_filesystem_avail_bytes{fstype!~"tmpfs|overlay"} / node_filesystem_size_bytes{fstype!~"tmpfs|overlay"}) * 100 < 20 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Low disk space on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "Disk {{ $labels.mountpoint }} on {{ $labels.instance }} has less than 20% free space (current value: {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}%)" - alert: DiskSpaceCritical expr: (node_filesystem_avail_bytes{fstype!~"tmpfs|overlay"} / node_filesystem_size_bytes{fstype!~"tmpfs|overlay"}) * 100 < 10 for: 2m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Critical disk space on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "Disk {{ $labels.mountpoint }} on {{ $labels.instance }} has less than 10% free space (current value: {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}%)" - alert: HighLoadAverage expr: node_load15 / count without(cpu, mode) (node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}) > 2 for: 10m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High load average on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "15-minute load average is {{ $value | printf \"%.2f\" }} times the CPU count on {{ $labels.instance }}" # ============================================================================ # Process-Level Alerts (puck.incus) # ============================================================================ - name: puck_process_alerts rules: - alert: PuckHighCPUProcess expr: sum by (groupname, instance) (rate(namedprocess_namegroup_cpu_seconds_total{instance=~"puck.*"}[2m])) * 100 > 80 for: 2m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High CPU process on puck: {{ $labels.groupname }}" description: "Process {{ $labels.groupname }} is using {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}% CPU for more than 2 minutes" - alert: PuckCriticalCPUProcess expr: sum by (groupname, instance) (rate(namedprocess_namegroup_cpu_seconds_total{instance=~"puck.*"}[1m])) * 100 > 95 for: 1m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Critical CPU process on puck: {{ $labels.groupname }}" description: "Process {{ $labels.groupname }} is using {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}% CPU - immediate attention required" - alert: PuckHighMemoryProcess expr: namedprocess_namegroup_memory_bytes{memtype="resident", instance=~"puck.*"} > 1073741824 for: 2m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High memory process on puck: {{ $labels.groupname }}" description: "Process {{ $labels.groupname }} is using {{ $value | humanize }} resident memory" - alert: PuckCriticalMemoryProcess expr: namedprocess_namegroup_memory_bytes{memtype="resident", instance=~"puck.*"} > 2147483648 for: 1m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Critical memory process on puck: {{ $labels.groupname }}" description: "Process {{ $labels.groupname }} is using {{ $value | humanize }} resident memory - immediate attention required" - alert: PuckProcessCrashLoop expr: increase(namedprocess_namegroup_num_procs{instance=~"puck.*"}[5m]) < -1 for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Process count dropped on puck: {{ $labels.groupname }}" description: "Process {{ $labels.groupname }} count has decreased, indicating possible crash or restart" # ============================================================================ # Docker Container Alerts (puck.incus) # ============================================================================ - name: puck_container_alerts rules: - alert: PuckHighContainerCount expr: count(container_last_seen{instance=~"puck.*", name!=""}) > 5 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High container count on puck" description: "puck.incus has {{ $value }} running containers, which exceeds the threshold of 5" - alert: PuckDuplicateContainers expr: count by (image, instance) (container_last_seen{instance=~"puck.*", name!=""}) > 2 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Duplicate containers on puck: {{ $labels.image }}" description: "{{ $value }} containers running the same image {{ $labels.image }} on puck" - alert: PuckOrphanedContainer expr: (time() - container_start_time_seconds{instance=~"puck.*", name=~".*_.*"}) > 3600 for: 10m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Possible orphaned container on puck: {{ $labels.name }}" description: "Container {{ $labels.name }} with auto-generated name has been running for {{ $value | humanizeDuration }}" - alert: PuckMCPContainerOnPuck expr: container_last_seen{instance=~"puck.*", image=~".*mcp-server.*|.*mcp_server.*"} for: 1m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "MCP container detected on puck (WRONG HOST)" description: "Container {{ $labels.name }} ({{ $labels.image }}) is running on puck but MCP servers should run on miranda.incus" - alert: PuckContainerHighCPU expr: sum by (name, instance) (rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{instance=~"puck.*", name!=""}[2m])) * 100 > 80 for: 2m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High CPU container on puck: {{ $labels.name }}" description: "Container {{ $labels.name }} is using {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}% CPU" - alert: PuckContainerHighMemory expr: container_memory_usage_bytes{instance=~"puck.*", name!=""} > 1073741824 for: 2m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High memory container on puck: {{ $labels.name }}" description: "Container {{ $labels.name }} is using {{ $value | humanize }} memory" - alert: PuckContainerOOMKilled expr: increase(container_oom_events_total{instance=~"puck.*", name!=""}[5m]) > 0 for: 0m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Container OOM killed on puck: {{ $labels.name }}" description: "Container {{ $labels.name }} was killed by OOM killer" # ============================================================================ # Service/Application Alerts # ============================================================================ - name: service_alerts rules: - alert: PrometheusTargetMissing expr: up == 0 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Prometheus target missing: {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "A Prometheus target has been down for more than 5 minutes." - alert: PrometheusJobMissing expr: absent(up{job="node-exporter"}) for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Prometheus job missing" description: "A Prometheus job has disappeared from target discovery." - alert: AlertmanagerDown expr: absent(up{job="alertmanager"}) for: 5m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Alertmanager is down" description: "Alertmanager is not responding. Alerts may not be delivered." # ============================================================================ # Loki/Logging Alerts # ============================================================================ - name: loki_alerts rules: - alert: LokiHighLogVolume expr: sum(rate(loki_distributor_bytes_received_total[5m])) > 10485760 for: 10m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "High log ingestion rate" description: "Loki is receiving logs at {{ $value | humanize }}/s which may indicate excessive logging" # ============================================================================ # Daedalus Application Alerts # ============================================================================ - name: daedalus_alerts rules: - alert: DaedalusDown expr: daedalus_up == 0 for: 1m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Daedalus is down" description: "Daedalus has been unreachable for more than 1 minute." - alert: DaedalusMCPDisconnected expr: daedalus_mcp_connections_active == 0 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Daedalus has no active MCP connections" description: "Daedalus has reported zero active MCP connections for 5 minutes." - alert: DaedalusHighErrorRate expr: rate(daedalus_http_requests_total{status=~"5.."}[5m]) / rate(daedalus_http_requests_total[5m]) > 0.05 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Daedalus HTTP 5xx error rate above 5%" description: "Daedalus is returning HTTP 5xx errors at {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} of requests." - alert: DaedalusClientExceptionSpike expr: rate(daedalus_client_exceptions_total[1m]) > 10 for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Daedalus client exception spike" description: "Daedalus is recording more than 10 client exceptions per minute (current: {{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}/min)." - alert: DaedalusSlowResponses expr: histogram_quantile(0.95, rate(daedalus_http_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) > 5 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Daedalus p95 response time above 5s" description: "Daedalus p95 response latency is {{ $value | printf \"%.2f\" }}s." - alert: DaedalusMCPLatency expr: histogram_quantile(0.95, rate(daedalus_mcp_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) > 30 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Daedalus MCP p95 latency above 30s" description: "Daedalus MCP p95 latency is {{ $value | printf \"%.2f\" }}s." - alert: DaedalusS3Errors expr: rate(daedalus_s3_errors_total[5m]) / rate(daedalus_s3_requests_total[5m]) > 0.01 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Daedalus S3 error rate above 1%" description: "Daedalus S3 error rate is {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} over the last 5 minutes." # ============================================================================ # Mnemosyne Application Alerts # ============================================================================ # One scrape job, ``mnemosyne``, on the nginx-fronted /metrics endpoint. # The Django app container hosts the single prometheus_client registry that # both django-prometheus (HTTP + Celery) and mcp_server.metrics (MCP tool # call counters) write to, so "MCP is broken" signals show up as # ``mcp_tool_invocations_total{status="error"}`` on the same job rather # than a separate up{} series. - name: mnemosyne_alerts rules: - alert: MnemosyneDown expr: up{job="mnemosyne"} == 0 for: 2m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Mnemosyne is down" description: "The Mnemosyne /metrics endpoint has been unreachable for more than 2 minutes. Both the Django app and the MCP server (same container family) are presumed unavailable." - alert: MnemosyneHighErrorRate expr: | sum(rate(django_http_responses_total_by_status_total{job="mnemosyne",status=~"5.."}[5m])) / sum(rate(django_http_responses_total_by_status_total{job="mnemosyne"}[5m])) > 0.05 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Mnemosyne HTTP 5xx error rate above 5%" description: "Mnemosyne is returning HTTP 5xx errors at {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} of requests over the last 5 minutes." - alert: MnemosyneSlowResponses expr: | histogram_quantile(0.95, sum by (le) (rate(django_http_requests_latency_including_middlewares_seconds_bucket{job="mnemosyne"}[5m])) ) > 5 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Mnemosyne p95 response time above 5s" description: "Mnemosyne p95 response latency is {{ $value | printf \"%.2f\" }}s over the last 5 minutes." # MCP tool-call error surface — owned by mcp_server.metrics on the # same /metrics endpoint. This complements MnemosyneDown by catching # "app is up but the MCP layer is sick" — e.g. auth token lookups are # failing, or Neo4j vector search is 500-ing. - alert: MnemosyneMCPToolErrors expr: | sum(rate(mcp_tool_invocations_total{job="mnemosyne",status="error"}[5m])) / sum(rate(mcp_tool_invocations_total{job="mnemosyne"}[5m])) > 0.10 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Mnemosyne MCP tool error rate above 10%" description: "MCP tool calls are erroring at {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} of invocations — check the mcp container logs in Loki ({service=\"mnemosyne\", component=\"mcp\"})." # Celery queue depth — high pending count usually means the embedding # worker is stuck or throttled by the embedding provider. Requires # ``celery-prometheus-exporter`` or similar to emit ``celery_queue_length``; # if that is not deployed yet, this rule simply never fires. - alert: MnemosyneCeleryBacklog expr: | sum by (queue) (celery_queue_length{queue=~"embedding|batch|celery"}) > 100 for: 10m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Mnemosyne Celery backlog on {{ $labels.queue }}" description: "Celery queue '{{ $labels.queue }}' has {{ $value }} pending tasks for more than 10 minutes — check the worker logs in Loki ({service=\"mnemosyne\", component=\"worker\"})." # ============================================================================ # Neo4j Alerts (neo4j-apoc-exporter sidecar) # ============================================================================ # Metrics come from stscoundrel/neo4j-apoc-exporter, which connects to # Neo4j over Bolt and surfaces apoc.monitor.* gauges plus standard JVM # metrics. "Exporter down" therefore covers both "exporter container # crashed" and "exporter cannot reach Bolt" — either way Neo4j is # effectively unobservable. Hostname-only — purpose of each instance # is implied by the host (e.g. ariel = LLM memory, umbriel = Mnemosyne). - name: neo4j_alerts rules: - alert: Neo4jExporterDown expr: up{job="neo4j"} == 0 for: 5m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: "Neo4j exporter down on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "The neo4j-apoc-exporter on {{ $labels.instance }} has been unreachable for more than 5 minutes. Either the sidecar container is down or it cannot connect to Neo4j over Bolt — check `docker ps` and `docker logs neo4j-exporter` on the host." - alert: Neo4jHighRollbackRate expr: | rate(neo4j_monitor_tx_rolledBackTx[10m]) / clamp_min(rate(neo4j_monitor_tx_totalOpenedTx[10m]), 1) > 0.10 for: 10m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Neo4j transaction rollback rate above 10% on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "More than 10% of transactions on {{ $labels.instance }} have rolled back over the last 10 minutes — check application logs in Loki ({job=\"neo4j\", hostname=\"{{ $labels.instance }}\"})." - alert: Neo4jStoreGrowthStalled expr: | rate(neo4j_monitor_tx_totalOpenedTx[15m]) == 0 and neo4j_monitor_tx_currentOpenedTx > 0 for: 15m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: "Neo4j has open transactions but zero throughput on {{ $labels.instance }}" description: "{{ $labels.instance }} shows {{ $value }} currently-open transactions but no new transactions opened in 15 minutes — possible Bolt-side hang or stuck query." # Red Panda Seal of Approval 🐼 # "If the metrics aren't red, go back to bed" {% endraw %}