groups: - name: polkadot.rules rules: ############################################################################## # Resource usage ############################################################################## - alert: HighCPUUsage expr: polkadot_cpu_usage_percentage >= 100 for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: message: 'The node {{ $labels.instance }} has a CPU usage higher than 100% for more than 5 minutes' ############################################################################## # Block production ############################################################################## - alert: LowNumberOfNewBlocks annotations: message: 'Less than one new block per minute on instance {{ $labels.instance }}.' expr: increase(polkadot_block_height{status="best"}[1m]) < 1 for: 3m labels: severity: warning - alert: LowNumberOfNewBlocks annotations: message: 'Less than one new block per minute on instance {{ $labels.instance }}.' expr: increase(polkadot_block_height{status="best"}[1m]) < 1 for: 10m labels: severity: critical ############################################################################## # Block finalization ############################################################################## - alert: BlockFinalizationSlow expr: increase(polkadot_block_height{status="finalized"}[1m]) < 1 for: 3m labels: severity: warning annotations: message: 'Finalized block on instance {{ $labels.instance }} increases by less than 1 per minute.' - alert: BlockFinalizationSlow expr: increase(polkadot_block_height{status="finalized"}[1m]) < 1 for: 10m labels: severity: critical annotations: message: 'Finalized block on instance {{ $labels.instance }} increases by less than 1 per minute.' - alert: BlockFinalizationLaggingBehind # Under the assumption of an average block production of 6 seconds, # "best" and "finalized" being more than 10 blocks apart would imply # more than a 1 minute delay between block production and finalization. expr: (polkadot_block_height_number{status="best"} - ignoring(status) polkadot_block_height_number{status="finalized"}) > 10 for: 8m labels: severity: critical annotations: message: "Block finalization on instance {{ $labels.instance }} is behind block production by {{ $value }} for more than 8m" ############################################################################## # Transaction queue ############################################################################## - alert: TransactionQueueSize expr: polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled - polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished > 10 for: 10m labels: severity: warning annotations: message: 'The node {{ $labels.instance }} has more than 10 transactions in the queue for more than 10 minutes' - alert: TransactionQueueSize expr: polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled - polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished > 10 for: 30m labels: severity: critical annotations: message: 'The node {{ $labels.instance }} has more than 10 transactions in the queue for more than 30 minutes' ############################################################################## # Networking ############################################################################## - alert: LowNumberOfPeers expr: polkadot_sub_libp2p_peers_count < 3 for: 3m labels: severity: warning annotations: message: 'The node {{ $labels.instance }} has less than 3 peers for more than 3 minutes' - alert: LowNumberOfPeers expr: polkadot_sub_libp2p_peers_count < 3 for: 15m labels: severity: critical annotations: message: 'The node {{ $labels.instance }} has less than 3 peers for more than 15 minutes' ############################################################################## # Others ############################################################################## - alert: AuthorityDiscoveryHighDiscoveryFailure expr: polkadot_authority_discovery_handle_value_found_event_failure / ignoring(name) polkadot_authority_discovery_dht_event_received{name="value_found"} > 0.5 for: 2h labels: severity: warning annotations: message: "Authority discovery on node {{ $labels.instance }} fails to process more than 50 % of the values found on the DHT."