groups: - name: EmbeddedExporter rules: - alert: IstioKubernetesGatewayAvailabilityDrop expr: 'min(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{deployment="istio-ingressgateway", namespace="istio-system"}) without (instance, pod) < 2' for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio Kubernetes gateway availability drop (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Istio ingress gateway has only {{ $value }} available pod(s). Inbound traffic will likely be affected.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" - alert: IstioPilotHighPushErrorRate expr: 'sum(rate(pilot_xds_push_errors[1m])) / sum(rate(pilot_xds_pushes[1m])) * 100 > 5 and sum(rate(pilot_xds_pushes[1m])) > 0' for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio Pilot high push error rate (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Number of Istio Pilot push errors is too high (> 5%). Envoy sidecars might have outdated configuration.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Mixer was deprecated in Istio 1.5 and removed in Istio 1.8+. This alert only applies to Istio < 1.8. - alert: IstioMixerPrometheusDispatchesLow expr: 'sum(rate(mixer_runtime_dispatches_total{adapter=~"prometheus"}[1m])) < 180' for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio Mixer Prometheus dispatches low (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Number of Mixer dispatches to Prometheus is too low. Istio metrics might not be being exported properly.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Threshold of 1000 req/s is a rough default. Adjust to your expected peak traffic. - alert: IstioHighTotalRequestRate expr: 'sum(rate(istio_requests_total{reporter="destination"}[5m])) > 1000' for: 2m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio high total request rate (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Global request rate in the service mesh is unusually high ({{ $value | printf \"%.2f\" }} req/s).\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" # Threshold of 100 req/s is a rough default. Adjust to your expected baseline traffic. This alert may fire on startup or low-traffic environments. - alert: IstioLowTotalRequestRate expr: 'sum(rate(istio_requests_total{reporter="destination"}[5m])) < 100' for: 2m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio low total request rate (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Global request rate in the service mesh is unusually low ({{ $value | printf \"%.2f\" }} req/s).\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" - alert: IstioHigh4xxErrorRate expr: 'sum(rate(istio_requests_total{reporter="destination", response_code=~"4.*"}[5m])) / sum(rate(istio_requests_total{reporter="destination"}[5m])) * 100 > 5 and sum(rate(istio_requests_total{reporter="destination"}[5m])) > 0' for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio high 4xx error rate (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "High percentage of HTTP 4xx responses in Istio ({{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}% > 5%).\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" - alert: IstioHigh5xxErrorRate expr: 'sum(rate(istio_requests_total{reporter="destination", response_code=~"5.*"}[5m])) / sum(rate(istio_requests_total{reporter="destination"}[5m])) * 100 > 5 and sum(rate(istio_requests_total{reporter="destination"}[5m])) > 0' for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio high 5xx error rate (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "High percentage of HTTP 5xx responses in Istio ({{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }}% > 5%).\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" - alert: IstioHighRequestLatency expr: 'rate(istio_request_duration_milliseconds_sum{reporter="destination"}[1m]) / rate(istio_request_duration_milliseconds_count{reporter="destination"}[1m]) > 100 and rate(istio_request_duration_milliseconds_count{reporter="destination"}[1m]) > 0' for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio high request latency (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Istio average request duration is {{ $value }}ms (> 100ms).\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" - alert: IstioLatency99Percentile expr: 'histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(rate(istio_request_duration_milliseconds_bucket[1m])) by (destination_canonical_service, destination_workload_namespace, le)) > 1000' for: 1m labels: severity: warning annotations: summary: Istio latency 99 percentile (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Istio p99 request latency is {{ $value }}ms (threshold: 1000ms).\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}" - alert: IstioPilotDuplicateEntry expr: 'sum(pilot_duplicate_envoy_clusters{}) > 0' for: 0m labels: severity: critical annotations: summary: Istio Pilot Duplicate Entry (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) description: "Istio Pilot has detected {{ $value }} duplicate Envoy cluster(s), indicating misconfigured DestinationRules or ServiceEntries.\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}"