Calico Monitoring

Calico Rules

Below is the YAML-based rule set that Catapult uses, including alert names, expression, timeframe, labels, and annotations which contain the description and summaries.

bash-5.0# cat calico.yml

groups:

- name: calico.rules

rules:

#----------------------------------- Calico Node -------------------------------------

# Felix Prometheus statistics: https://projectcalico.docs.tigera.io/reference/felix/prometheus

- alert: PromHTTPRequestErrors

expr: (sum(rate(promhttp_metric_handler_requests_total{job="calico-node",code=~"(4|5).."}[5m] offset 5m )) by (instance, job, cluster, host) / sum(rate(promhttp_metric_handler_requests_total{job="calico-node"}[5m] offset 5m )) by (instance, job, cluster, host)) * 100 > 1

for: 10m

labels:

severity: warning

type: calico-node

annotations:

description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: HTTP requests errors on host {{ $labels.host }}."

summary: Calico HTTP requests errors on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}

Last updated by Anagha Pamidi on Jan 26, 2026

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