# Alerting

## Community Alert Channels

To listen for update announcements, join the following channels:

* **THORNode Announcements (Telegram)**: <https://t.me/thornode_ann>
* **THORChain Community Devs (Discord)**: <https://discord.gg/g6Z2whSvGF>

{% hint style="info" %}
Be sure to use a pseudonym in order to prevent doxxing yourself. Node operators should remain anonymous for the health of the network and your personal/node security.
{% endhint %}

[Also see the Prometheus Alerts guide.](https://gitlab.com/thorchain/devops/node-launcher/-/blob/master/docs/Alerting.md)

## Vǫrðr 👻

A monitoring application for THORNodes.

> A Vǫrðr or warden is a guardian spirit who will follow the soul of a living person from birth until death.

{% hint style="info" %}
Vǫrðr is a community developed monitoring app for THORNodes. It's fully open-source at <https://github.com/sourcapital/vordr>. This is 3rd party software outside of the scope of THORSec.
{% endhint %}

## Features

* All chains are monitored for `Health` and `Sync Status` every minute
* THORChain version is monitored every minute
* Kubernetes pod restarts are monitored every 5 minutes
* Kubernetes pod logs of all chains are aggregated
* Slash points are monitored every minute
* Jailing is monitored every minute
* Chain observations are monitored every minute

## Supported Chains

| Client   | Chain                                                              |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Bitcoin  | Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Dogecoin (DOGE) |
| Ethereum | Ethereum (ETH), Avalanche (AVAX)                                   |
| Cosmos   | Cosmos (ATOM), Binance (BSC), THORChain (RUNE)                     |

{% hint style="info" %}
See <https://github.com/sourcapital/vordr#kubernetes> on how to run Vǫrðr in the Kubernetes cluster.
{% endhint %}


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.thorchain.org/thornodes/alerting.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.