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+apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1
+kind: VMRule
+metadata:
+  name: forgejo-alerts
+  namespace: observability
+spec:
+  groups:
+    - name: forgejo
+      rules:
+        - alert: forgejo down
+          expr: sum by(cluster_environment) (up{pod=~"forgejo-server-.*"}) < 1
+          for: 30s
+          labels:
+            severity: major
+            job:  "{{ $labels.job }}"
+          annotations:
+            value: "{{ $value }}"
+            description: 'forgejo is down in cluster environment {{ $labels.cluster_environment }}'