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. During the last 2 minutes Kubernetes treated the node as Not Ready or Unknown and kubelet was 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).