ouranos/ansible/pplg/alert_rules.yml.j2

# 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 %}