# alerting-oncall

Sets up Prometheus alert rules, configures Alertmanager routing, and manages PagerDuty on-call rotations.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 336 installs · ★ 1177
- Author: devops-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/devops/observability/alerting-oncall/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-22
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## What it does

This skill guides the AI assistant in designing alerting rules and on-call escalation policies for production infrastructure. It establishes clear severity tiers from `low` to `critical`, helping engineers focus on user-impacting symptoms rather than noisy raw metrics. The included PromQL snippets cover service health checks, 5xx error rate thresholds over 0.05, and latency spikes exceeding 500ms at P95.

Configuration templates cover `alertmanager.yml` with business-hour time intervals, inhibition rules to mute secondary alerts, and routing trees for Slack and PagerDuty. For team rotations, it provides Terraform definitions for `pagerduty_service`, multi-tier escalation policies, and weekly on-call schedule layers.

These configuration patterns require an existing observability backend such as Prometheus or Datadog to evaluate metrics. You also need an on-call service like PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or Grafana OnCall alongside Slack or email channels to receive the alerts.

## Requirements
- Works with: Grafana

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill alerting-oncall -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/alerting-oncall/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/alerting-oncall/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill alerting-oncall -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/alerting-oncall/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill alerting-oncall -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/alerting-oncall/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills alerting-oncall
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/alerting-oncall/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill alerting-oncall -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --path devops/observability/alerting-oncall
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/alerting-oncall/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill alerting-oncall -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/devops/observability/alerting-oncall/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- create Prometheus alerting rules for downtime and elevated 5xx error rates
- configure Alertmanager routing trees with Slack and PagerDuty receivers
- provision PagerDuty on-call schedules and escalation policies with Terraform
- set up alert inhibition rules to silence dependent warnings during outages

## Example prompts
- Generate a Prometheus alert rule for P95 latency exceeding 500ms over a 5m window
- Create an Alertmanager configuration that routes critical alerts to PagerDuty and high alerts to Slack during business hours
- Write Terraform code for a weekly PagerDuty on-call rotation schedule

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: alerting-oncall
description: Set up alerting rules, configure on-call rotations, and manage incident response workflows. Integrate with PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or Grafana OnCall for alert routing and escalation. Use when implementing alerting strategies and on-call management for production systems.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: devops-skills
  version: "1.0"
---

# Alerting & On-Call

Configure effective alerting and on-call management for production systems.

## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:
- Setting up alerting rules and thresholds
- Configuring on-call rotations and schedules
- Implementing alert routing and escalation
- Reducing alert fatigue
- Managing incident response workflows

## Prerequisites

- Monitoring system (Prometheus, Datadog, etc.)
- On-call platform (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Grafana OnCall)
- Communication channels (Slack, email)

## Alerting Best Practices

### Alert Categories

```yaml
# Severity levels
critical:
  - Service completely down
  - Data loss imminent
  - Security breach
  response: Immediate page, wake people up

high:
  - Service degraded significantly
  - Error rate above SLO
  - Capacity near limit
  response: Page during business hours, notify after hours

medium:
  - Performance degradation
  - Non-critical component failure
  - Warning thresholds exceeded
  response: Notify via Slack, review next business day

low:
  - Informational alerts
  - Capacity planning triggers
  - Routine maintenance needed
  response: Email notification, weekly review
```

### Alert Design Principles

```yaml
# Good alert characteristics
alerts:
  actionable:
    - Every alert should require human action
    - Include runbook links
    - Clear remediation steps

  relevant:
    - Alert on symptoms, not causes
    - Focus on user impact
    - Avoid alerting on expected behavior

  timely:
    - Appropriate thresholds
    - Suitable evaluation windows
    - Account for normal variance

  unique:
    - No duplicate alerts
    - Proper alert grouping
    - Clear ownership
```

## Prometheus Alerting

### Alert Rules

```yaml
# prometheus/rules/alerts.yml
groups:
  - name: service_alerts
    rules:
      # High-level service health
      - alert: ServiceDown
        expr: up{job="myapp"} == 0
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Service {{ $labels.instance }} is down"
````
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