groups: - name: polkadot.rules rules: ############################################################################## # Block production ############################################################################## - alert: BlockProductionSlow annotations: message: 'Best block on instance {{ $labels.instance }} increases by less than 1 per minute for more than 3 minutes.' expr: increase(polkadot_block_height{status="best"}[1m]) < 1 for: 3m labels: severity: warning - alert: BlockProductionSlow annotations: message: 'Best block on instance {{ $labels.instance }} increases by less than 1 per minute for more than 10 minutes.' 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 for more than 3 minutes.' - 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 for more than 10 minutes.' - 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 8 minutes." ############################################################################## # Transaction queue ############################################################################## - alert: TransactionQueueSizeIncreasing expr: 'increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled[5m]) - increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished[5m]) > 0' for: 10m labels: severity: warning annotations: message: 'The transaction pool size on node {{ $labels.instance }} has been monotonically increasing for more than 10 minutes.' - alert: TransactionQueueSizeIncreasing expr: 'increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled[5m]) - increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished[5m]) > 0' for: 30m labels: severity: critical annotations: message: 'The transaction pool size on node {{ $labels.instance }} has been monotonically increasing for more than 30 minutes.' - alert: TransactionQueueSizeHigh expr: 'polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled - polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished > 10000' for: 5m labels: severity: critical annotations: message: 'The transaction pool size on node {{ $labels.instance }} has been above 10_000 for more than 5 minutes.' ############################################################################## # Networking ############################################################################## - alert: NumberOfPeersLow 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: NumberOfPeersLow 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' ############################################################################## # System ############################################################################## - alert: NumberOfFileDescriptorsHigh expr: 'node_filefd_allocated{domain=~"kusama|polkadot"} > 10000' for: 3m labels: severity: warning annotations: message: 'The node {{ $labels.instance }} has more than 10_000 file descriptors allocated for more than 3 minutes' ############################################################################## # Others ############################################################################## - alert: ContinuousTaskEnded expr: '(polkadot_tasks_spawned_total{task_name != "basic-authorship-proposer"} == 1) - on(instance, task_name) (polkadot_tasks_ended_total == 1)' for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: message: 'Continuous task {{ $labels.task_name }} on node {{ $labels.instance }} ended unexpectedly.' - alert: AuthorityDiscoveryDiscoveryFailureHigh 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 for more than 2 hours.'