diff --git a/docker/blocks/prometheus/Dockerfile b/docker/blocks/prometheus/Dockerfile
index 0e07679ddd5..1ad28f524ff 100644
--- a/docker/blocks/prometheus/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/blocks/prometheus/Dockerfile
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 FROM prom/prometheus
 ADD prometheus.yml /etc/prometheus/
+ADD alert.rules /etc/prometheus/
diff --git a/docker/blocks/prometheus/alert.rules b/docker/blocks/prometheus/alert.rules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..563d1e89994
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/blocks/prometheus/alert.rules
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Alert Rules
+
+ALERT AppCrash
+  IF process_open_fds > 0
+  FOR 15s
+  LABELS { severity="critical" }
+  ANNOTATIONS {
+   summary = "Number of open fds > 0",
+   description = "Just testing"
+  }
diff --git a/docker/blocks/prometheus/fig b/docker/blocks/prometheus/fig
index 1c70c14fc37..7d9bea68046 100644
--- a/docker/blocks/prometheus/fig
+++ b/docker/blocks/prometheus/fig
@@ -18,3 +18,8 @@ fake-prometheus-data:
   environment:
     FD_DATASOURCE: prom
 
+alertmanager:
+  image: quay.io/prometheus/alertmanager
+  net: host
+  ports:
+    - "9093:9093"
diff --git a/docker/blocks/prometheus/prometheus.yml b/docker/blocks/prometheus/prometheus.yml
index 35be33b80a7..0afb7968ce5 100644
--- a/docker/blocks/prometheus/prometheus.yml
+++ b/docker/blocks/prometheus/prometheus.yml
@@ -6,9 +6,18 @@ global:
 
 # Load and evaluate rules in this file every 'evaluation_interval' seconds.
 rule_files:
+  - "alert.rules"
   # - "first.rules"
   # - "second.rules"
 
+alerting:
+  alertmanagers:
+  - scheme: http
+    static_configs:
+    - targets:
+      - "127.0.0.1:9093"
+
+
 # A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
 # Here it's Prometheus itself.
 scrape_configs: