kube-prometheus-stack does not scrape flux-system: the controllers are
bootstrapped, expose no Service, and no chart value covers them. So every
gotk_* alert rule in platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml could never fire —
verified on prod, count({__name__=~"gotk.*"}) returned nothing. A repo whose
entire delivery model is Flux had no alerting on reconciliation failing, a
Kustomization erroring, or a resource left suspended.
Proven live before landing: with this PodMonitor applied, gotk_suspend_status
returns 39 series and gotk_reconcile_condition 117, and FluxResourceSuspended
actually fired on a deliberate test suspension — evidence the rule is live,
not merely present.
Extracted from the wider inert-alert audit on
fix/scrape-targets-for-inert-alerts, which stalled unfinished. This is the
self-contained, verified half; Longhorn and cert-manager metrics are still
ABSENT and their alerts remain inert. It also adopts the object into git: it
existed on prod only as kubectl-client-side-apply, so a rebuild would have
lost it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
