Skill Detail

Prometheus Rule Evaluator

Validates and tests Prometheus alerting rules against historical metrics data using the Prometheus HTTP API /api/v1/query_range endpoint. Runs rule simulations with configurable time windows and threshold testing.

Monitoring & AlertsClaude Agents
Monitoring & Alerts Claude Agents Security Reviewed
Tool match: prometheus โญ 63.6k GitHub stars Apache-2.0 license
INSTALL WITH ANY AGENT
npx skills add agentskillexchange/skills --skill prometheus-rule-evaluator Copy
Works best when you want a reusable capability, not another fragile one-off prompt.
At a glance
Last updated
Mar 24, 2026
Quick brief

The Prometheus Rule Evaluator validates alerting and recording rules before deployment to production Prometheus instances. It parses rule YAML files following the Prometheus rule_group schema and tests each rule expression against historical metrics data via the Prometheus HTTP API /api/v1/query_range endpoint. For each rule, the evaluator runs the PromQL expression across configurable time windows (default: 7 days) to determine historical firing patterns. The skill reports false positive rates, alert frequency, and duration distributions to help tune thresholds before deployment. It supports all PromQL functions including rate(), histogram_quantile(), predict_linear(), and aggregation operators. Test scenarios can be defined in YAML format specifying expected alert states at given timestamps, enabling unit-test-style validation of alerting logic. The evaluator integrates with the Prometheus /api/v1/rules endpoint to compare proposed rules against existing active rules, detecting conflicts and redundancies. Output includes a coverage report showing which metrics are monitored, gaps in monitoring, and recommendations for additional rules based on available metric labels. Compatible with Thanos and Cortex long-term storage backends via their compatible query APIs.