diff --git a/deployment/docker/alerts.yml b/deployment/docker/alerts.yml
index fd61a943e..ad5fd58a3 100644
--- a/deployment/docker/alerts.yml
+++ b/deployment/docker/alerts.yml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # and threshold calibration according to every specific setup.
 groups:
   - name: serviceHealth
+    # note the `job` filter and update accordingly to your setup
     rules:
-      # note the `job` filter and update accordingly to your setup
       - alert: TooManyRestarts
         expr: changes(process_start_time_seconds{job=~"vmselect|vminsert|vmstorage|vmagent|vmalert"}[15m]) > 2
         labels:
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ groups:
           description: "Job {{ $labels.job }} (instance {{ $labels.instance }}) has restarted more than twice in the last 15 minutes.
             It might be crashlooping."
 
+      - alert: ServiceDown
+        expr: up{job=~"vmselect|vminsert|vmstorage|vmagent|vmalert"} == 0
+        for: 2m
+        labels:
+          severity: "critical"
+        annotations:
+          summary: "Service {{ $labels.job }} is down on {{ $labels.instance }}"
+          description: "{{ $labels.instance }} of job {{ $labels.job }} has been down for more than 2 minutes."
+
   # Alerts group for VM cluster assumes that Grafana dashboard
   # https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11176 is installed.
   # Please, update the `dashboard` annotation according to your setup.