VictoriaMetrics / VictoriaMetrics/operator

Alert `LogErrors` has a misleading `nomatch` state if operator runs without error logs

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Since Aug 6, 2026.

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Description

The alert should rather have inactive state since the operator_log_messages_total metric is actually there but simply no logs with level: error are present.

Alert nomatch state
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Only info logs
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Used in victoria-metrics-k8s-stack chart default rules

vm-k8s-stack chart version: 0.82.0
vm-operator chart version: 0.63.1

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