diff --git a/bindata/assets/alerts/kube-apiserver-watch-cache.yaml b/bindata/assets/alerts/kube-apiserver-watch-cache.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93aa3d1ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindata/assets/alerts/kube-apiserver-watch-cache.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: PrometheusRule
+metadata:
+  name: kube-apiserver-watch-cache
+  namespace: openshift-kube-apiserver
+spec:
+  groups:
+  - name: kube-apiserver-watch-cache
+    rules:
+    - alert: KubeAPIWatchCacheNotReady
+      annotations:
+        summary: "Watch cache for resource {{ $labels.resource }} is not ready."
+        description: "The watch cache for resource {{ $labels.resource }} has been in a non-ready state for more than 3 minutes."        
+      expr: apiserver_watch_cache_ready == 0
+      for: 1m
+      labels:
+        namespace: openshift-kube-apiserver
+        severity: critical
diff --git a/pkg/operator/starter.go b/pkg/operator/starter.go
index 8002e1ec8..4b1606a28 100644
--- a/pkg/operator/starter.go
+++ b/pkg/operator/starter.go
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ func RunOperator(ctx context.Context, controllerContext *controllercmd.Controlle
 			"assets/alerts/kube-apiserver-requests.yaml",
 			"assets/alerts/kube-apiserver-slos-basic.yaml",
 			"assets/alerts/podsecurity-violations.yaml",
+			"assets/alerts/kube-apiserver-watch-cache.yaml",
 		},
 		(&resourceapply.ClientHolder{}).
 			WithKubernetes(kubeClient).