groups: - name: EmbeddedExporter # Jaeger v2 is built on OpenTelemetry Collector and exposes metrics on port 8888 (/metrics). # It emits standard otelcol_* pipeline metrics alongside Jaeger-specific storage and query metrics. # For span ingestion pipeline alerts (refused spans, export failures, queue saturation), # use the OpenTelemetry Collector rules instead. rules: - alert: JaegerHighStorageErrorRate expr: '100 * sum(rate(jaeger_storage_requests_total{result="err"}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace, operation) / sum(rate(jaeger_storage_requests_total[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace, operation) > 1 and sum(rate(jaeger_storage_requests_total[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace, operation) > 0' for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Jaeger high storage error rate (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Jaeger on {{ $labels.instance }} is experiencing {{ $value | humanize }}% storage errors on {{ $labels.operation }}.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Threshold of 1s is a rough default. Adjust based on your storage backend and data volume. - alert: JaegerSlowStorageOperations expr: 'histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(rate(jaeger_storage_latency_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le, instance, job, namespace, operation)) > 1' for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Jaeger slow storage operations (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Jaeger on {{ $labels.instance }} storage p99 latency for {{ $labels.operation }} is {{ $value | humanizeDuration }}.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Filters on http_route="/api/traces" (the trace search endpoint). The http_server_request_duration_seconds # metric is emitted by the otelhttp middleware used by the Jaeger query service. - alert: JaegerQueryServiceHighErrorRate expr: '100 * sum(rate(http_server_request_duration_seconds_count{http_route="/api/traces",http_response_status_code=~"5.."}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace) / sum(rate(http_server_request_duration_seconds_count{http_route="/api/traces"}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace) > 1 and sum(rate(http_server_request_duration_seconds_count{http_route="/api/traces"}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace) > 0' for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Jaeger query service high error rate (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Jaeger query service on {{ $labels.instance }} is returning {{ $value | humanize }}% HTTP 5xx errors.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Threshold of 2s is a rough default. Adjust based on your storage backend and data volume. - alert: JaegerQueryServiceSlowResponses expr: 'histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(rate(http_server_request_duration_seconds_bucket{http_route="/api/traces"}[5m])) by (le, instance, job, namespace)) > 2' for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Jaeger query service slow responses (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Jaeger query service on {{ $labels.instance }} p99 response latency is {{ $value | humanizeDuration }}.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Fires when all storage operations for a given type are failing and none are succeeding. # Indicates the storage backend (Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc.) is likely unreachable or misconfigured. - alert: JaegerStorageCompletelyUnavailable expr: 'sum(rate(jaeger_storage_requests_total{result="err"}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace, operation) > 0 and sum(rate(jaeger_storage_requests_total{result="ok"}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace, operation) == 0' for: 2m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: Jaeger storage completely unavailable (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Jaeger on {{ $labels.instance }} has 100% storage errors for {{ $labels.operation }} — storage backend may be down.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Single trace retrieval (/api/traces/{traceID}) can be slower than search, especially for large traces. # Threshold of 5s is a rough default. - alert: JaegerSlowSingleTraceRetrieval expr: 'histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(rate(http_server_request_duration_seconds_bucket{http_route="/api/traces/{traceID}"}[5m])) by (le, instance, job, namespace)) > 5' for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Jaeger slow single trace retrieval (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Jaeger on {{ $labels.instance }} p99 latency for single trace retrieval is {{ $value | humanizeDuration }}.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Errors on /api/services indicate the storage backend cannot return the list of instrumented services, # which breaks the Jaeger UI service selector. - alert: JaegerServiceDiscoveryErrors expr: '100 * sum(rate(http_server_request_duration_seconds_count{http_route="/api/services",http_response_status_code=~"5.."}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace) / sum(rate(http_server_request_duration_seconds_count{http_route="/api/services"}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace) > 1 and sum(rate(http_server_request_duration_seconds_count{http_route="/api/services"}[1m])) by (instance, job, namespace) > 0' for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Jaeger service discovery errors (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Jaeger on {{ $labels.instance }} is returning {{ $value | humanize }}% HTTP 5xx errors on the services endpoint.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Fires when an operation (e.g. find_traces, get_services) has received requests but none succeeded. # May indicate a persistent storage error or a backend that is slow to recover. - alert: JaegerNoStorageReadsSucceeding expr: 'sum(increase(jaeger_storage_requests_total{result="ok"}[15m])) by (instance, job, namespace, operation) == 0 and sum(increase(jaeger_storage_requests_total[15m])) by (instance, job, namespace, operation) > 0' for: 5m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Jaeger no storage reads succeeding (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Jaeger on {{ $labels.instance }} has no successful storage reads for {{ $labels.operation }} in the past 15 minutes.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}"