diff --git a/deploy/serval/templates/alert-manager-config.yaml b/deploy/serval/templates/alert-manager-config.yaml
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+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1alpha1
+kind: AlertmanagerConfig
+metadata:
+  name: limit-alerts
+  namespace: {{ .Values.namespace }}
+spec:
+  receivers:
+    - emailConfigs:
+        - authPassword:
+            key: ?????
+            name: ?????
+          authUsername: ??????
+          from: serval-dallas@languagetechnology.org
+          requireTLS: true
+          sendResolved: true
+          smarthost: ?????
+          tlsConfig: {}
+          to: 'john_lambert@sil.org, eli_lowry@sil.org'
+      name: alert-nlp
+  route:
+    groupBy: [...]
+    groupInterval: 5m
+    groupWait: 10s
+    receiver: alert-nlp
+    repeatInterval: 4h
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diff --git a/deploy/serval/templates/prometheus-rules.yaml b/deploy/serval/templates/prometheus-rules.yaml
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+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: PrometheusRule
+metadata:
+  namespace: {{ .Values.namespace }}
+spec:
+  groups:
+    - name: cpu
+      rules:
+        - alert: cpu-80perc-{{ .Values.namspace }}
+          annotations:
+            description: >-
+              '{{ $labels.container }} has high CPU.'
+          expr: >-
+            max(rate (container_cpu_usage_seconds_total {image!="", namespace=~"serval|nlp", container!="POD" } [3m]))
+            by (container, namespace) 
+            / on (container, namespace) 
+            min(kube_pod_container_resource_limits{resource="cpu", namespace=~"serval|nlp", container!="POD"}) 
+            by (container, namespace) * 100 >= 80
+          for: 0s
+          labels:
+            severity: warning