Create Alerts

rf alerts create \
  --name "High Error Rate" \
  --metric error_rate \
  --service api \
  --threshold "> 5%" \
  --window 5m \
  --notify slack,email

✓ Alert created: High Error Rate
  Trigger: api.error_rate > 5% for 5 minutes
  Notify: #ops (Slack), [email protected]

Alert Types

Threshold Alerts

Trigger when a metric crosses a threshold:

rf alerts create --name "CPU Spike" --metric cpu_percent --service web --threshold "> 90%" --window 3m
rf alerts create --name "Memory Critical" --metric memory_percent --service api --threshold "> 95%" --window 1m
rf alerts create --name "Slow Responses" --metric response_time_p99 --service api --threshold "> 1000ms" --window 5m
rf alerts create --name "Queue Backlog" --metric queue_depth --service tasks --threshold "> 1000" --window 10m
rf alerts create --name "Disk Full" --metric disk_percent --threshold "> 85%" --window 5m

Anomaly Detection

RaidFrame learns your traffic patterns and alerts on deviations:

rf alerts create --name "Traffic Anomaly" --metric request_count --service web --type anomaly --sensitivity medium

No threshold to set — RaidFrame detects unusual spikes or drops automatically based on historical patterns.

Deployment Alerts

Auto-notify on deployment events:

rf alerts create --name "Deploy Notify" --type deployment --events start,success,failure,rollback --notify slack

Uptime Alerts

Monitor external endpoints:

rf alerts create --name "Site Down" --type uptime --url https://myapp.com --interval 30s --notify pagerduty

Notification Channels

Slack

rf alerts channel add slack --webhook https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxx --name ops-channel

Email

rf alerts channel add email --address [email protected] --name oncall
rf alerts channel add email --address [email protected] --name escalation

PagerDuty

rf alerts channel add pagerduty --integration-key xxx --name critical

Webhook

rf alerts channel add webhook --url https://myapi.com/alerts --secret xxx --name custom

Webhook payload:

{
  "alert": "High Error Rate",
  "status": "firing",
  "service": "api",
  "metric": "error_rate",
  "value": 8.2,
  "threshold": 5,
  "started_at": "2026-03-16T14:30:00Z",
  "project": "my-saas",
  "environment": "production",
  "dashboard_url": "https://dash.raidframe.com/my-team/my-saas/alerts/a_123"
}

OpsGenie

rf alerts channel add opsgenie --api-key xxx --name oncall

Manage Alerts

# List all alerts
rf alerts list

# View alert history
rf alerts history "High Error Rate"

# Mute an alert temporarily
rf alerts mute "High Error Rate" --duration 2h --reason "Known deploy in progress"

# Delete an alert
rf alerts delete "High Error Rate"

# Test a notification channel
rf alerts test ops-channel

Escalation Policies

Route alerts to different channels based on severity and duration:

alerts:
  high-error-rate:
    metric: error_rate
    service: api
    threshold: "> 5%"
    window: 5m
    escalation:
      - after: 0m
        notify: [slack:ops-channel]
      - after: 15m
        notify: [email:oncall, pagerduty:critical]
      - after: 30m
        notify: [email:escalation, slack:leadership]

Budget Alerts

Get notified before hitting spending limits:

rf budget set 500 --notify email:[email protected] --at 50%,80%,100%

✓ Budget set: $500/mo
  Alerts at: $250 (50%), $400 (80%), $500 (100%)
  Notify: [email protected]

Alerts & Notifications