<p>I'm new to running Prometheus and Graphana. I want to create an alert that fires when a Kubernetes pod is in a pending state for more than 15 minutes. The PromQL query I'm using is:</p>
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<p>kube_pod_status_phase{exported_namespace=&quot;mynamespace&quot;, phase=&quot;Pending&quot;} &gt; 0</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What I haven't been able to figure out is how to construct an alert based upon how long the pod has been in that state. I've tried a few permutations of alert conditions in Graphana along the lines of:</p>
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<p>WHEN avg() OF query (A, 15m, now) IS ABOVE 1</p>
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<p>The all fire an alert based upon the number of pods in the state rather than the duration.</p>
<p>How can an alert be constructed based upon the time in the state?</p>
<p>Please &amp; Thank You</p>

lovecraft66
<pre><code>- alert: KubernetesPodNotHealthy
expr: min_over_time(sum by (namespace, pod) (kube_pod_status_phase{phase=~&quot;Pending|Unknown|Failed&quot;})[15m:1m]) &gt; 0
for: 0m
labels:
  severity: critical
annotations:
  summary: Kubernetes Pod not healthy (instance {{ $labels.instance }})
  description: &quot;Pod has been in a non-ready state for longer than 15 minutes.\n  VALUE = {{ $value }}\n  LABELS = {{ $labels }}&quot;
</code></pre>
