prometheus
Overview
The Prometheus Mixin is a set of configurable, reusable, and extensible alerts and dashboards for Prometheus.
Jsonnet source code is available at github.com/prometheus/prometheus
Alerts
Complete list of pregenerated alerts is available here.
prometheus
PrometheusBadConfig
alert: PrometheusBadConfig
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has failed to reload its configuration.
summary: Failed Prometheus configuration reload.
expr: |
# Without max_over_time, failed scrapes could create false negatives, see
# https://www.robustperception.io/alerting-on-gauges-in-prometheus-2-0 for details.
max_over_time(prometheus_config_last_reload_successful{job="prometheus"}[5m]) == 0
for: 10m
labels:
severity: critical
PrometheusSDRefreshFailure
alert: PrometheusSDRefreshFailure
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has failed to refresh SD with mechanism
{{$labels.mechanism}}.
summary: Failed Prometheus SD refresh.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_sd_refresh_failures_total{job="prometheus"}[10m]) > 0
for: 20m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusKubernetesListWatchFailures
alert: PrometheusKubernetesListWatchFailures
annotations:
description: Kubernetes service discovery of Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} is
experiencing {{ printf "%.0f" $value }} failures with LIST/WATCH requests to the
Kubernetes API in the last 5 minutes.
summary: Requests in Kubernetes SD are failing.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_sd_kubernetes_failures_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusNotificationQueueRunningFull
Prometheus alert notification queue predicted to run full in less than
alert: PrometheusNotificationQueueRunningFull
annotations:
description: Alert notification queue of Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} 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"}[5m], 60 * 30)
>
min_over_time(prometheus_notifications_queue_capacity{job="prometheus"}[5m])
)
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusErrorSendingAlertsToSomeAlertmanagers
‘{{ printf “%.1f” $value }}% of alerts sent by Prometheus {{$labels.instance}}
More than 1% of alerts sent by Prometheus to a specific Alertmanager were
alert: PrometheusErrorSendingAlertsToSomeAlertmanagers
annotations:
description: '{{ printf "%.1f" $value }}% of alerts sent by Prometheus {{$labels.instance}}
to Alertmanager {{$labels.alertmanager}} were affected by errors.'
summary: More than 1% of alerts sent by Prometheus to a specific Alertmanager were
affected by errors.
expr: |
(
rate(prometheus_notifications_errors_total{job="prometheus"}[5m])
/
rate(prometheus_notifications_sent_total{job="prometheus"}[5m])
)
* 100
> 1
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusNotConnectedToAlertmanagers
alert: PrometheusNotConnectedToAlertmanagers
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} 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"}[5m]) < 1
for: 10m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusTSDBReloadsFailing
alert: PrometheusTSDBReloadsFailing
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has detected {{$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"}[3h]) > 0
for: 4h
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusTSDBCompactionsFailing
alert: PrometheusTSDBCompactionsFailing
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has detected {{$value | humanize}}
compaction failures over the last 3h.
summary: Prometheus has issues compacting blocks.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_tsdb_compactions_failed_total{job="prometheus"}[3h]) > 0
for: 4h
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusNotIngestingSamples
alert: PrometheusNotIngestingSamples
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} is not ingesting samples.
summary: Prometheus is not ingesting samples.
expr: |
(
sum without(type) (rate(prometheus_tsdb_head_samples_appended_total{job="prometheus"}[5m])) <= 0
and
(
sum without(scrape_job) (prometheus_target_metadata_cache_entries{job="prometheus"}) > 0
or
sum without(rule_group) (prometheus_rule_group_rules{job="prometheus"}) > 0
)
)
for: 10m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps
alert: PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} is dropping {{ printf "%.4g" $value }}
samples/s with different values but duplicated timestamp.
summary: Prometheus is dropping samples with duplicate timestamps.
expr: |
rate(prometheus_target_scrapes_sample_duplicate_timestamp_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0
for: 10m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusOutOfOrderTimestamps
alert: PrometheusOutOfOrderTimestamps
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} is dropping {{ printf "%.4g" $value }}
samples/s with timestamps arriving out of order.
summary: Prometheus drops samples with out-of-order timestamps.
expr: |
rate(prometheus_target_scrapes_sample_out_of_order_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0
for: 10m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusRemoteStorageFailures
alert: PrometheusRemoteStorageFailures
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} failed to send {{ printf "%.1f" $value
}}% of the samples to {{ $labels.remote_name}}:{{ $labels.url }}
summary: Prometheus fails to send samples to remote storage.
expr: |
(
(rate(prometheus_remote_storage_failed_samples_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) or rate(prometheus_remote_storage_samples_failed_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]))
/
(
(rate(prometheus_remote_storage_failed_samples_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) or rate(prometheus_remote_storage_samples_failed_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]))
+
(rate(prometheus_remote_storage_succeeded_samples_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) or rate(prometheus_remote_storage_samples_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]))
)
)
* 100
> 1
for: 15m
labels:
severity: critical
PrometheusRemoteWriteBehind
alert: PrometheusRemoteWriteBehind
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} remote write is {{ printf "%.1f" $value
}}s behind for {{ $labels.remote_name}}:{{ $labels.url }}.
summary: Prometheus remote write is behind.
expr: |
# Without max_over_time, failed scrapes could create false negatives, see
# https://www.robustperception.io/alerting-on-gauges-in-prometheus-2-0 for details.
(
max_over_time(prometheus_remote_storage_highest_timestamp_in_seconds{job="prometheus"}[5m])
- ignoring(remote_name, url) group_right
max_over_time(prometheus_remote_storage_queue_highest_sent_timestamp_seconds{job="prometheus"}[5m])
)
> 120
for: 15m
labels:
severity: critical
PrometheusRemoteWriteDesiredShards
alert: PrometheusRemoteWriteDesiredShards
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} 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"}`
$labels.instance | query | first | value }}.
summary: Prometheus remote write desired shards calculation wants to run more than
configured max shards.
expr: |
# Without max_over_time, failed scrapes could create false negatives, see
# https://www.robustperception.io/alerting-on-gauges-in-prometheus-2-0 for details.
(
max_over_time(prometheus_remote_storage_shards_desired{job="prometheus"}[5m])
>
max_over_time(prometheus_remote_storage_shards_max{job="prometheus"}[5m])
)
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusRuleFailures
alert: PrometheusRuleFailures
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has failed to evaluate {{ printf "%.0f"
$value }} rules in the last 5m.
summary: Prometheus is failing rule evaluations.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_rule_evaluation_failures_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0
for: 15m
labels:
severity: critical
PrometheusMissingRuleEvaluations
alert: PrometheusMissingRuleEvaluations
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has missed {{ printf "%.0f" $value
}} rule group evaluations in the last 5m.
summary: Prometheus is missing rule evaluations due to slow rule group evaluation.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_rule_group_iterations_missed_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusTargetLimitHit
alert: PrometheusTargetLimitHit
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has dropped {{ printf "%.0f" $value
}} targets because the number of targets exceeded the configured target_limit.
summary: Prometheus has dropped targets because some scrape configs have exceeded
the targets limit.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_target_scrape_pool_exceeded_target_limit_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusLabelLimitHit
alert: PrometheusLabelLimitHit
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has dropped {{ printf "%.0f" $value
}} targets because some samples exceeded the configured label_limit, label_name_length_limit
or label_value_length_limit.
summary: Prometheus has dropped targets because some scrape configs have exceeded
the labels limit.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_target_scrape_pool_exceeded_label_limits_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusScrapeBodySizeLimitHit
alert: PrometheusScrapeBodySizeLimitHit
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} has failed {{ printf "%.0f" $value
}} scrapes in the last 5m because some targets exceeded the configured body_size_limit.
summary: Prometheus has dropped some targets that exceeded body size limit.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_target_scrapes_exceeded_body_size_limit_total{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusScrapeSampleLimitHit
alert: PrometheusScrapeSampleLimitHit
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} 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"}[5m]) > 0
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusTargetSyncFailure
alert: PrometheusTargetSyncFailure
annotations:
description: '{{ printf "%.0f" $value }} targets in Prometheus {{$labels.instance}}
have failed to sync because invalid configuration was supplied.'
summary: Prometheus has failed to sync targets.
expr: |
increase(prometheus_target_sync_failed_total{job="prometheus"}[30m]) > 0
for: 5m
labels:
severity: critical
PrometheusHighQueryLoad
alert: PrometheusHighQueryLoad
annotations:
description: Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} 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"}[5m]) / max_over_time(prometheus_engine_queries_concurrent_max{job="prometheus"}[5m]) > 0.8
for: 15m
labels:
severity: warning
PrometheusErrorSendingAlertsToAnyAlertmanager
‘{{ printf “%.1f” $value }}% minimum errors while sending alerts from Prometheus encounters more than 3% errors sending alerts to any Alertmanager.
alert: PrometheusErrorSendingAlertsToAnyAlertmanager
annotations:
description: '{{ printf "%.1f" $value }}% minimum errors while sending alerts from
Prometheus {{$labels.instance}} to any Alertmanager.'
summary: Prometheus encounters more than 3% errors sending alerts to any Alertmanager.
expr: |
min without (alertmanager) (
rate(prometheus_notifications_errors_total{job="prometheus",alertmanager!~``}[5m])
/
rate(prometheus_notifications_sent_total{job="prometheus",alertmanager!~``}[5m])
)
* 100
> 3
for: 15m
labels:
severity: critical
Dashboards
Following dashboards are generated from mixins and hosted on github: