add server.alerts: Alertmanager with email notifications

Turns the Alertmanager wiring sketched out in conversation into an option, and
ships the alerting rules rather than leaving them as something to copy out of a
chat log.

  services.telemetry.server.alerts = {
    enable = true;
    to = [ "you@example.com" ];
    from = "alerts@example.com";
    smarthost = "smtp.fastmail.com:587";
    username = "alerts@example.com";
    passwordFile = config.sops.secrets.smtp-password.path;
  };

passwordFile becomes smtp_auth_password_file, read at runtime, so the password
never enters the store. `settings` is merged over the generated configuration
for inhibit rules and severity routing. Alerts group by alertname and host, so
nine failing drives on one machine arrive as one mail.

rules/alerts.yml carries twelve alerts: drive failing, degraded, failed
self-test, overheating; pool not ONLINE, unrepairable data errors, over 85%
full, scrub or snapshots overdue; exporter down, collector stale, textfile parse
error. Most are one-liners because rules/smartctl.yml has already reduced drive
health to a single smartctl:health_code. ExporterDown earns its place by
covering the case where a machine vanishes and every other alert goes quiet.

Alertmanager is defined inside the existing services.prometheus block: Nix will
not let one attrset both define services.prometheus wholesale and add a path
beneath it. Same shape as the grafana settings fix in 89f2c32.

Verified by building both ways. Enabled: two promtool-checked rule files, an
amtool-checked Alertmanager config with the password file, and Prometheus
pointing at 127.0.0.1:9093. Disabled: no alertmanager unit, one rule file, no
alerting stanza. The README's rule-override and alerts.settings snippets were
also built rather than written from memory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JKczN1f66kmLxNBLX37voQ

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+# Alerting rules for the collectors' metrics.
+#
+# Loaded when services.telemetry.server.alerts.enable is on. Most of the conditions are
+# one-liners because rules/smartctl.yml has already reduced drive health to a single
+# smartctl:health_code per drive -- see that file for how the verdict is derived.
+#
+# Every alert carries the `host` label, so notifications say which machine. That label
+# comes from the relabelling in modules/server.nix, not from the exporters.
+#
+# These are deliberately conservative: long `for` durations, and thresholds chosen so a
+# healthy fleet is silent. If you want different numbers, set
+# services.telemetry.server.alerts.defaultRules = false and point
+# services.telemetry.server.prometheus.ruleFiles at your own copy.
+
+groups:
+  - name: drives
+    rules:
+      # smartctl:health_code is 2 when the drive's own SMART self-assessment failed, an
+      # attribute is at or below its vendor threshold, or the drive reported errors it
+      # could not correct. Any of those means replace it.
+      - alert: DriveFailing
+        expr: smartctl:health_code == 2
+        for: 15m
+        labels:
+          severity: critical
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: drive {{ $labels.device }} is failing"
+          description: >-
+            SMART reports this drive as failing. Check the Drive Health dashboard for
+            which attribute tripped, and plan a replacement.
+
+      # Reallocated, pending or uncorrectable sectors on SATA; a non-empty grown defect
+      # list on SAS. Not failing yet, so this is a long-fuse warning rather than a page.
+      - alert: DriveCaution
+        expr: smartctl:health_code == 1
+        for: 6h
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: drive {{ $labels.device }} has degraded sectors"
+          description: >-
+            Watch the trend rather than the absolute number -- a stable count is
+            tolerable, growth is not.
+
+      - alert: SelfTestFailed
+        expr: smart_selftest_last_passed == 0
+        for: 1h
+        labels:
+          severity: critical
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: {{ $labels.device }} failed its {{ $labels.test_type }} self-test"
+
+      # Sustained operation above ~55C measurably shortens drive life.
+      - alert: DriveOverheating
+        expr: smartctl_device_temperature{temperature_type="current"} > 55
+        for: 30m
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: {{ $labels.device }} is at {{ $value }}C"
+
+  - name: pools
+    rules:
+      - alert: PoolNotOnline
+        expr: zfs_pool_health_code != 0
+        for: 5m
+        labels:
+          severity: critical
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: pool {{ $labels.pool }} is not ONLINE"
+
+      # Errors ZFS could not repair from redundancy: data has been lost and the affected
+      # files need restoring from backup.
+      - alert: PoolDataErrors
+        expr: zfs_pool_data_errors > 0
+        for: 5m
+        labels:
+          severity: critical
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: pool {{ $labels.pool }} has unrepairable data errors"
+
+      # ZFS write performance degrades sharply past ~80%, and a pool near 100% becomes
+      # effectively read-only. 85% leaves room to react.
+      - alert: PoolNearlyFull
+        expr: zfs_pool_capacity_ratio > 0.85
+        for: 1h
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: pool {{ $labels.pool }} is {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} full"
+
+      - alert: ScrubOverdue
+        expr: time() - zfs_pool_last_scrub_end_timestamp_seconds > 45 * 86400
+        for: 1h
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: pool {{ $labels.pool }} has not been scrubbed in 45 days"
+
+      # Two intervals late means the auto-snapshot timer has missed at least one run.
+      - alert: SnapshotsOverdue
+        expr: >-
+          (time() - zfs_snapshot_newest_timestamp_seconds)
+          > on(label) group_left() (2 * zfs_snapshot_interval_seconds)
+        for: 1h
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: {{ $labels.label }} snapshots of {{ $labels.dataset }} are overdue"
+
+  - name: collection
+    rules:
+      # Covers both exporters. Without this, every other alert here goes quiet when a
+      # machine disappears -- absence of data is not absence of a problem.
+      - alert: ExporterDown
+        expr: up == 0
+        for: 10m
+        labels:
+          severity: critical
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: the {{ $labels.job }} exporter is not responding"
+
+      # The ZFS collector runs every minute and the SMART one every 15, so a file older
+      # than 30 minutes means its timer is failing and the dashboards are showing stale
+      # numbers without saying so.
+      - alert: CollectorStale
+        expr: time() - node_textfile_mtime_seconds > 1800
+        for: 15m
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: {{ $labels.file }} has not been refreshed"
+
+      - alert: TextfileParseError
+        expr: node_textfile_scrape_error > 0
+        for: 15m
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $labels.host }}: a collector wrote a malformed .prom file"