diff --git a/rabbitmq/meta/fluentd.yml b/rabbitmq/meta/fluentd.yml
index 0b75d10..823921e 100644
--- a/rabbitmq/meta/fluentd.yml
+++ b/rabbitmq/meta/fluentd.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,35 @@
         match:
           push_to_default:
             tag: rabbitmq
+            type: copy
+            store:
+              - type: relabel
+                label: default_output
+              - type: rewrite_tag_filter
+                rule:
+                  - name: severity_label
+                    regexp: '.'
+                    result: metric.rabbitmq_log_messages
+          push_to_metric:
+            tag: metric.rabbitmq_log_messages
             type: relabel
-            label: default_output
+            label: default_metric
+      default_metric:
+        filter:
+          rabbitmq_logs_per_severity:
+            tag: metric.rabbitmq_log_messages
+            require:
+              - add_general_fields
+            type: prometheus
+            metric:
+              - name: log_messages
+                type: counter
+                desc: Total number of log lines by severity
+            label:
+              - name: service
+                value: rabbitmq
+              - name: level
+                value: ${severity_label}
+              - name: host
+                value: ${Hostname}
 {%- endif %}
diff --git a/rabbitmq/meta/prometheus.yml b/rabbitmq/meta/prometheus.yml
index 2397096..10dcd45 100644
--- a/rabbitmq/meta/prometheus.yml
+++ b/rabbitmq/meta/prometheus.yml
@@ -83,5 +83,15 @@
       annotations:
         summary: "RabbitMQ has reached the limit of {%- endraw %}{{ msg_threshold }}{%- raw %} messages"
         description: "The RabbitMQ service on the {{ $labels.host }} node has received {{ $value }} messages."
+    RabbitmqErrorLogsTooHigh:
+      if: >-
+        sum(rate(log_messages{service="rabbitmq",level=~"(?i:(error|emergency|fatal))"}[5m])) without (level) > 0.2
+      for: 1m
+      labels:
+        severity: warning
+        service: rabbitmq
+      annotations:
+        summary: "Too many errors in RabbitMQ logs"
+        description: "The rate of errors in RabbitMQ logs over the last 5 minutes is too high on node {{ $labels.host }}."
 {%- endraw %}
 {%- endif %}