Alert

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  • Added/expanded a PostgreSQL monitoring and alerting guide covering Prometheus and Grafana setup for a managed PostgreSQL instance, including verification steps, an end-to-end “simulate a firing alert” walkthrough, a detailed alert reference (severity/duration/meaning), how to customize alert thresholds/enablement, and cleanup instructions.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A new documentation file docs/guides/postgres/monitoring/alerting.md is added, providing a complete guide for configuring Prometheus-based alerting on a KubeDB-managed PostgreSQL instance, including prerequisites, Helm chart installation, end-to-end verification, alert simulation walkthrough, alert reference table, threshold customization, and cleanup instructions.

Changes

PostgreSQL Prometheus Alerting Guide

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Front-matter, prerequisites, and architecture overview docs/guides/postgres/monitoring/alerting.md	Adds page navigation front-matter, introductory guidance for new KubeDB users, prerequisites list, and an alerting architecture diagram.
Deploy PostgreSQL with Prometheus monitoring enabled docs/guides/postgres/monitoring/alerting.md	Documents the example PostgreSQL CR manifest with exporter, ServiceMonitor, and Prometheus label settings, plus commands to apply and verify readiness.
Install postgres-alerts and kubedb-grafana-dashboards Helm charts docs/guides/postgres/monitoring/alerting.md	Documents Helm install and verification commands for the postgres-alerts chart (PrometheusRule label requirements) and the kubedb-grafana-dashboards chart (Grafana token creation, feature gate, CRD verification).
End-to-end verification checks docs/guides/postgres/monitoring/alerting.md	Documents steps to confirm exporter reachability, Prometheus target UP status, initial alert inactivity, AlertManager inspection, and Grafana dashboard exploration.
Alert simulation walkthrough and alert reference docs/guides/postgres/monitoring/alerting.md	Procedures to simulate a firing PostgresqlDown alert via StatefulSet scaling, observe state transitions in Prometheus and AlertManager, restore the instance, and a complete enumeration of alert groups with per-alert severity, duration, and meaning.
Customization, cleanup, and next steps docs/guides/postgres/monitoring/alerting.md	Shows how to customize alert thresholds via custom Helm values and helm upgrade, provides full cleanup commands for charts and instances, and links to related guides.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Poem

🐇 Hop hop, the docs are here at last,
A guide to alerts, from future to past!
PrometheusRules labeled just right,
Grafana dashboards glowing with light.
Clean up when done — no mess shall remain,
The rabbit hops onward to document again! 🌟

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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