Write Prometheus recording rules and alerting rules with for and keep_firing_for clauses

domain: prometheus.io · 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Create a rule group file with recording rules that pre-aggregate expensive PromQL expressions into new metric series
  2. Write alerting rules with threshold expressions and set the for duration to require the condition to persist before firing
  3. Add a keep_firing_for duration to prevent the alert from resolving immediately when the condition briefly dips below the threshold
  4. Add labels and annotations to alerting rules to route them correctly in Alertmanager and provide runbook links
  5. Load the rule file into Prometheus and validate it using the promtool check rules subcommand before deploying

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