foxhunt/docs/archive/infrastructure/ALERTING_ARCHITECTURE.md

# Foxhunt Alerting Architecture
**Agent H5** | Production Monitoring System

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## 🏗️ Alert Flow Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     METRICS COLLECTION                           │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  API Gateway (9091)  │  Trading Service (9092)  │  PostgreSQL   │
│  Backtesting (9093)  │  ML Training (9094)      │  Prometheus   │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┘
                       │
                       ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    PROMETHEUS (9090)                             │
│                   Alert Evaluation                               │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  • 8 Alert Groups (32 total alerts)                             │
│  • Evaluation every 15-60s                                      │
│  • Time-series queries with thresholds                          │
│  • State: pending → firing → resolved                           │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┘
                       │
                       ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  ALERTMANAGER (9093)                             │
│              Routing & Deduplication                             │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  • Group by: alertname, severity, component                     │
│  • Inhibition rules (suppress redundant alerts)                 │
│  • Route by severity and component                              │
└──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬────────────────────┘
           │          │          │          │
           ▼          ▼          ▼          ▼
    ┌─────────┐  ┌────────┐  ┌──────┐  ┌────────┐
    │  Slack  │  │ Email  │  │Webhook│  │PagerDuty│
    │ 8 channels│ │Critical│  │Custom │  │ Future │
    └─────────┘  └────────┘  └──────┘  └────────┘
```

---

## 🎯 Alert Categories

### 1. Critical Alerts (Immediate Response)
**Response Time**: <5 minutes
**Channels**: Slack + Email + Webhook

```
Latency
├── CriticalP99LatencyAPIGateway (>100ms for 1m)
├── CriticalP99LatencyTradingService (>100ms for 1m)
└── CriticalOrderProcessingLatency (>100ms for 30s)

Availability
├── CriticalServiceDown (unreachable for 30s)
└── DegradedSystemHealth (<75% services up)

Memory
├── CriticalMemoryGrowth (>10%/hour for 5m)
├── CriticalMemoryUsageAbsolute (>8GB)
└── CriticalSystemMemoryPressure (>90% system)

Trading/Risk
├── CriticalPositionLimitBreach (immediate)
├── HighDrawdown (>5%, immediate)
├── CriticalMarketDataStale (>5s old)
└── RiskCheckFailures (>5 in 5m)

Database
├── CriticalPostgreSQLDown (30s)
└── PostgreSQLConnectionPoolExhaustion (>90%)
```

### 2. Warning Alerts (Review within hours)
**Response Time**: <4 hours
**Channels**: Slack only

```
Errors
├── HighErrorRateAPIGateway (>1% for 3m)
├── HighErrorRateTradingService (>1% for 3m)
└── HighOrderRejectionRate (>1% for 3m)

Resources
├── HighCPUUsage (>80% for 5m)
├── DiskSpaceLow (<15% for 5m)
└── DiskSpaceCritical (<10% for 2m)

ML Health
├── HighMLPredictionLatency (>50ms P99)
└── MLPredictionErrors (>1% for 3m)

Database
└── SlowDatabaseQueries (>100ms avg)
```

---

## 🔔 Notification Channels

### Slack Channels (8 specialized)
```
#foxhunt-critical-latency    → P99 latency violations
#foxhunt-critical-outages    → Service down alerts
#foxhunt-critical-memory     → Memory leak detection
#foxhunt-critical-risk       → Risk management alerts
#foxhunt-critical-trading    → Trading system alerts
#foxhunt-critical-database   → Database failures
#foxhunt-warnings-errors     → Error rate warnings
#foxhunt-warnings-resources  → CPU/disk warnings
#foxhunt-warnings-ml         → ML model warnings
```

### Email Recipients
```
oncall@foxhunt.local         → All critical service down
risk-team@foxhunt.local      → Critical risk alerts
monitoring@foxhunt.local     → Warning aggregates
```

### Webhooks
```
http://localhost:5001/webhook            → Default
http://localhost:5001/critical-latency   → Latency alerts
http://localhost:5001/critical-service-down → Outages
http://localhost:5001/critical-memory    → Memory alerts
http://localhost:5001/critical-risk      → Risk alerts
http://localhost:5001/critical-trading   → Trading alerts
http://localhost:5001/critical-database  → Database alerts
```

---

## 🛡️ Alert Inhibition Rules

### Suppression Logic
```
If Service Down
  ↓
  Suppress: All alerts from that service
  Why: Root cause is service unavailability

If System Health Degraded
  ↓
  Suppress: Individual service alerts
  Why: System-wide issue, not component-specific

If Critical Memory Alert
  ↓
  Suppress: Warning memory alerts
  Why: Critical takes precedence

If Database Down
  ↓
  Suppress: Slow queries, connection pool alerts
  Why: Root cause is database unavailability

If Market Data Stale
  ↓
  Suppress: Risk check failures (may be related)
  Why: Stale data causes risk failures

If Position Limit Breached
  ↓
  Suppress: Order rejection alerts
  Why: Orders rejected due to position limits
```

---

## 📊 Alert Timing Matrix

| Alert Group | Evaluation | Group Wait | Group Interval | Repeat |
|-------------|-----------|------------|----------------|--------|
| Latency Critical | 15s | 0s | 1m | 15m |
| Service Down | 15s | 0s | 30s | 5m |
| Memory Critical | 30s | 0s | 2m | 10m |
| Trading/Risk | 15s | 0s | 30s-1m | 5-10m |
| Error Rates | 15s | 30s | 5m | 2h |
| Resources | 30s | 1m | 5m | 4h |
| ML Health | 30s | 1m | 10m | 4h |
| Aggregate | 1m | 10s | 5m | 4h |

---

## 🔍 Alert States

```
┌──────────┐
│  Normal  │  No threshold breach
└─────┬────┘
      │ Threshold breached
      ▼
┌──────────┐
│ Pending  │  Waiting for "for" duration
└─────┬────┘
      │ Duration met
      ▼
┌──────────┐
│  Firing  │  Alert active, notifications sent
└─────┬────┘
      │ Issue resolved
      ▼
┌──────────┐
│ Resolved │  Recovery notification sent
└──────────┘
```

---

## 🎛️ Configuration Files

### 1. Alert Rules
**File**: `config/prometheus/rules/production-alerts.yml`
```yaml
groups:
  - name: production-latency-critical
    interval: 15s
    rules:
      - alert: CriticalP99LatencyAPIGateway
        expr: histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(...)) > 0.1
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: critical
          component: latency
```

### 2. AlertManager Routing
**File**: `config/prometheus/alertmanager-production.yml`
```yaml
route:
  receiver: 'default-webhook'
  group_by: ['alertname', 'severity', 'component']
  routes:
    - match:
        severity: critical
        component: latency
      receiver: 'critical-latency'
      group_wait: 0s
```

### 3. Prometheus Config
**File**: `config/prometheus/prometheus.yml`
```yaml
rule_files:
  - "rules/*.yml"

alerting:
  alertmanagers:
    - static_configs:
        - targets: ['alertmanager:9093']
```

---

## 🚀 Quick Commands

### Check Alert Status
```bash
# View all firing alerts
curl -s http://localhost:9090/api/v1/alerts | \
  jq '.data.alerts[] | select(.state == "firing")'

# Count alerts by state
curl -s http://localhost:9090/api/v1/alerts | \
  jq '.data.alerts | group_by(.state) | map({state: .[0].state, count: length})'

# View specific alert
curl -s http://localhost:9090/api/v1/alerts | \
  jq '.data.alerts[] | select(.labels.alertname == "CriticalServiceDown")'
```

### Reload Configuration
```bash
# Reload Prometheus
curl -X POST http://localhost:9090/-/reload

# Reload AlertManager
curl -X POST http://localhost:9093/-/reload
```

### Test Alerts
```bash
# Run test suite
./scripts/test_alerting.sh

# Validate configuration
./scripts/validate_h5_alerting.sh
```

---

## 📈 Metrics Dashboard

### Key Prometheus Queries

**P99 Latency by Service**
```promql
histogram_quantile(0.99,
  rate(grpc_server_handling_seconds_bucket[1m]))
```

**Error Rate by Service**
```promql
sum(rate(grpc_server_handled_total{grpc_code!="OK"}[5m])) by (job)
  /
sum(rate(grpc_server_handled_total[5m])) by (job)
```

**Memory Growth Rate**
```promql
((process_resident_memory_bytes
  - (process_resident_memory_bytes offset 1h))
  / (process_resident_memory_bytes offset 1h)) * 100
```

**Service Availability**
```promql
up{job=~"api_gateway|trading_service|backtesting_service|ml_training_service"}
```

---

## 🎯 Alert Priorities

### P0 (Critical - Immediate)
- Service Down
- P99 Latency >100ms
- Memory Growth >10%/hour
- Position Limit Breach
- Drawdown >5%
- Market Data Stale

### P1 (Warning - Hours)
- Error Rate >1%
- CPU >80%
- Disk <15%
- Slow Queries
- ML Prediction Errors

### P2 (Info - Days)
- System health degradation
- Alert storms
- Configuration changes

---

## 📞 Escalation Path

```
Alert Fires
    ↓
Slack Notification (#critical-*)
    ↓
If no ACK in 5 minutes
    ↓
Email to oncall@foxhunt.local
    ↓
If no ACK in 10 minutes
    ↓
PagerDuty escalation (future)
    ↓
If no ACK in 15 minutes
    ↓
SMS to on-call engineer (future)
```

---

**Last Updated**: 2025-10-18
**Agent**: H5
**Status**: Production Ready
**Validation**: 96.2% (26/27 checks passed)