General alerts

This section lists the general available alerts.

• NodeDown

• Watchdog

• StacklightGenericTargetsOutage

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NodeDown

Severity	Critical
Summary	{{ $labels.node }} node is down.
Description	The {{ $labels.node }} node is down. Kubernetes treats the node as Not Ready and kubelet is not accessible from Prometheus.

Watchdog

Severity	None
Summary	Watchdog alert that is always firing.
Description	This alert ensures that the entire alerting pipeline is functional. This alert should always be firing in Alertmanager against a receiver. Some integrations with various notification mechanisms can send a notification when this alert is not firing. For example, the DeadMansSnitch integration in PagerDuty.

StacklightGenericTargetsOutage

Severity	Major
Summary	{{ $labels.service_name }} service targets outage.
Description	Prometheus fails to scrape metrics from all {{ $labels.namespace }}/{{ $labels.service_name }} service endpoint(s) (more than 1/10 failed scrapes).