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etcd Monitoring
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Rules for etcd
The Prometheus agent is configured to report numerous etcd metrics. Below is the YAML-based rule set that Catapult uses, including alert names, expression, timeframe, labels with severity and type, and annotations which contain the description and summaries.
bash-5.0# cat etcd.yml
groups:
- name: etcd
rules:
- alert: EtcdBackupJobFailed
expr: kube_job_status_failed{job_name=~"etcd-backup.*"} offset 5m > 0
for: 0m
labels:
severity: high
type: etcd
annotations:
summary: Etcd Backup Job failed for cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: Etcd Backup Job {{$labels.namespace}}/{{$labels.job_name}} failed to complete reason: {{$labels.reason}}"
- alert: EtcdDown
expr: up{job="etcd"} offset 5m == 0
for: 10m
labels:
severity: critical
type: etcd
annotations:
description: Etcd container down on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
summary: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: Etcd container down on host {{ $labels.host }}"
- alert: EtcdInsufficientMembers
expr: count(etcd_server_id) by (cluster) % 2 == 0
for: 1m
labels:
severity: critical
type: etcd
annotations:
summary: Etcd insufficient members on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: Etcd cluster should have an odd number of members\n VALUE = {{ $value }}"
- alert: EtcdNoLeader
expr: etcd_server_has_leader == 0
for: 1m
labels:
severity: critical
type: etcd
annotations:
summary: Etcd no Leader on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: Etcd cluster have no leader\n VALUE = {{ $value }}"
- alert: EtcdHighNumberOfLeaderChanges
expr: increase(etcd_server_leader_changes_seen_total[10m] offset 5m) > 2
for: 0m
labels:
severity: high
type: etcd
annotations:
summary: Etcd high number of leader changes on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: Etcd leader changed more than 2 times during 10 minutes\n VALUE = {{ $value }}"
- alert: EtcdHighNumberOfFailedGrpcRequests
expr: sum(rate(grpc_server_handled_total{grpc_code!="OK"}[1m] offset 5m )) BY (grpc_service, grpc_method, cluster, host) / sum(rate(grpc_server_handled_total[1m] offset 5m )) BY (grpc_service, grpc_method, cluster, host) > 0.01
for: 2m
labels:
severity: warning
type: etcd
annotations:
summary: Etcd high number of failed GRPC requests on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: More than 1% GRPC request failure detected on Etcd host {{ $labels.host }}\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}"
- alert: EtcdHighNumberOfFailedProposals
expr: increase(etcd_server_proposals_failed_total[1h]) > 5
for: 2m
labels:
severity: warning
type: etcd
annotations:
summary: Etcd high number of failed proposals on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: Etcd server got more than 5 failed proposals past hour\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}"
- alert: EtcdHighFsyncDurations
expr: histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(etcd_disk_wal_fsync_duration_seconds_bucket[1m] offset 5m )) > 0.5
for: 2m
labels:
severity: warning
type: etcd
annotations:
summary: Etcd high fsync durations on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: Etcd WAL fsync duration increasing, 99th percentile is over 0.5s on Etcd host {{ $labels.host }}\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}"
- alert: EtcdHighCommitDurations
expr: histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(etcd_disk_backend_commit_duration_seconds_bucket[1m] offset 5m )) > 0.25
for: 2m
labels:
severity: warning
type: etcd
annotations:
summary: Etcd high commit durations on cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}
description: "Cluster {{ $labels.cluster }}: Etcd commit duration increasing, 99th percentile is over 0.25s on Etcd host {{ $labels.host }}\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}"
bash-5.0#
Last updated by Anagha Pamidi on Jan 27, 2026
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