CoreDNS Prometheus Alert Rules1 Prometheus alerting rule for CoreDNS.Exported via Embedded exporter.These rules cover critical and warning conditions — copy and paste the YAML into your Prometheus configuration.
Alert thresholds depend on the nature of your applications. Some queries may have arbitrary tolerance thresholds. Building an efficient monitoring platform takes time. 😉
groups:
- name: EmbeddedExporter
rules:
- alert: CoreDNSPanicCount
expr: increase(coredns_panics_total[1m]) > 0
for: 0m
labels:
severity: critical
annotations:
summary: CoreDNS Panic Count (instance {{ $labels.instance }})
description: "Number of CoreDNS panics encountered\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}"Embedded exporter(1 rules)wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samber/awesome-prometheus-alerts/refs/heads/master/dist/rules/coredns/embedded-exporter.yml
Number of CoreDNS panics encountered
- alert: CoreDNSPanicCount
expr: increase(coredns_panics_total[1m]) > 0
for: 0m
labels:
severity: critical
annotations:
summary: CoreDNS Panic Count (instance {{ $labels.instance }})
description: "Number of CoreDNS panics encountered\n VALUE = {{ $value }}\n LABELS = {{ $labels }}"