diff --git a/platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml b/platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml
index d3e5d9a..a622fec 100644
--- a/platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml
+++ b/platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml
@@ -213,11 +213,14 @@ spec:
   groups:
     - name: platform-health.networking
       rules:
-        # VPN tunnel health. The concrete metric depends on the egress-gateway VPN sidecar chosen by
-        # WS-NET (docs/03). Written against a gluetun-style up gauge; confirm/adjust at bring-up.
+        # VPN tunnel health (ADR-0015: node-level host OpenVPN tunnel on the egress-gateway node, steered
+        # by Cilium Egress Gateway — there is NO in-cluster gateway pod). OpenVPN creates/destroys the tun0
+        # device with the connection, so the tun0 netdev series exists iff the tunnel is up. node_network_up
+        # is unreliable here (tun0 operstate=unknown => 0), so key on the byte-counter's PRESENCE. absent()
+        # also fires if the gateway node / its node-exporter is down (the tun0 series goes stale), covering
+        # gateway-node-down as well. Metric confirmed live on the dev cluster 2026-08-24.
         - alert: VPNTunnelDown
-          # TODO(WS-NET): confirm metric name of the egress VPN exporter (docs/03).
-          expr: max(gluetun_vpn_up) == 0 or absent(gluetun_vpn_up)
+          expr: absent(node_network_receive_bytes_total{device="tun0"})
           for: 5m
           labels:
             severity: critical
@@ -225,16 +228,11 @@ spec:
             summary: "Egress VPN tunnel down"
             description: "The egress-gateway VPN tunnel is down (or its metric is absent) for 5m — outbound traffic could leak or stall (R-SEC-03 leak risk)."
             runbook_url: "https://home.keithjackson.dev/runbooks/vpn-down"
-        - alert: EgressGatewayUnhealthy
-          expr: |
-            max by (pod) (kube_pod_status_ready{namespace="egress", condition="true"}) == 0
-          for: 10m
-          labels:
-            severity: critical
-          annotations:
-            summary: "Egress gateway unhealthy"
-            description: "No ready egress-gateway pod for 10m — VPN-scoped egress is unavailable."
-            runbook_url: "https://home.keithjackson.dev/runbooks/egress-gateway"
+        # (ADR-0015) The former `EgressGatewayUnhealthy` pod-readiness alert was REMOVED with the gluetun
+        # retirement: there is no in-cluster egress-gateway pod anymore (the tunnel is a host systemd
+        # service, steering is Cilium eBPF). Tunnel + gateway-node health is covered by `VPNTunnelDown`
+        # above (tun0 presence, which also goes absent if the gateway node is down); Cilium datapath
+        # health is covered by the Cilium platform alerts.
         - alert: HubbleDeniedFlowSpike
           # Cilium/Hubble denied (policy-drop) flows. Requires hubble metrics enabled (docs/03).
           expr: sum(rate(hubble_drop_total{reason="POLICY_DENIED"}[5m])) > 5