diff --git a/packages/api/src/models/alert.ts b/packages/api/src/models/alert.ts
index b1ae55d4..1dd0cb01 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/models/alert.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/models/alert.ts
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ export type AlertType = 'presence' | 'absence';
 
 export enum SystemAlertName {
   ANOMALOUS_ERRORS = 'Anomalous HTTP Server Errors',
-  ANOMALOUS_REQUESTS = 'Anomalous HTTP Server Requests',
-  ANOMALOUS_ERROR_LOGS = 'Anomalous General Error Logs',
+  ANOMALOUS_REQUESTS = 'Anomalous HTTP Successful Requests',
+  ANOMALOUS_ERROR_EVENTS = 'Anomalous Error Events',
 }
 
 export enum AlertState {
diff --git a/packages/api/src/tasks/alerts/addSystemAlerts.ts b/packages/api/src/tasks/alerts/addSystemAlerts.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..252214dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/api/src/tasks/alerts/addSystemAlerts.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+import { serializeError } from 'serialize-error';
+
+import { AggFn } from '@/clickhouse';
+import Alert, {
+  AlertChannel,
+  AnomalyModel,
+  CheckerType,
+  SystemAlertName,
+} from '@/models/alert';
+import Team from '@/models/team';
+import logger from '@/utils/logger';
+
+type SystemAlertConfig = {
+  name: SystemAlertName;
+  where: string;
+  message: string;
+  models: AnomalyModel[];
+  interval: string;
+};
+
+const SYSTEM_ALERT_CONFIGS: SystemAlertConfig[] = [
+  {
+    name: SystemAlertName.ANOMALOUS_ERRORS,
+    where: 'level:"error" span.kind:"server"',
+    message: [
+      `Alert for ${SystemAlertName.ANOMALOUS_ERRORS}`,
+      'Observed {{value}} requests with errors returned in the past {{granularity}}(s).',
+    ].join('\n\n'),
+    models: [
+      {
+        name: 'zscore',
+        enabled: true,
+        params: {
+          threshold: 10,
+        },
+      },
+    ],
+    interval: '5m',
+  },
+  {
+    name: SystemAlertName.ANOMALOUS_REQUESTS,
+    where: 'level:"ok" span.kind:"server"',
+    message: [
+      `Alert for ${SystemAlertName.ANOMALOUS_REQUESTS}`,
+      'Observed {{value}} requests returned in the past {{granularity}}(s).',
+    ].join('\n\n'),
+    models: [
+      {
+        name: 'zscore',
+        enabled: true,
+        params: {
+          threshold: 10,
+        },
+      },
+    ],
+    interval: '5m',
+  },
+  {
+    name: SystemAlertName.ANOMALOUS_ERROR_EVENTS,
+    where: 'level:error',
+    message: [
+      `Alert for ${SystemAlertName.ANOMALOUS_ERROR_EVENTS}`,
+      'Observed {{value}} error logs returned in the past {{granularity}}(s).',
+    ].join('\n\n'),
+    models: [
+      {
+        name: 'zscore',
+        enabled: true,
+        params: {
+          threshold: 10,
+        },
+      },
+    ],
+    interval: '5m',
+  },
+];
+
+async function createAlertIfMissing(
+  teamId: string,
+  channel: AlertChannel,
+  config: SystemAlertConfig,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const { name, where, message, models, interval } = config;
+  try {
+    await Alert.create({
+      team: teamId,
+      isSystem: true,
+      name: name,
+      interval: interval,
+      threshold: 1,
+      type: 'presence',
+      cron: '* * * * *',
+      timezone: 'UTC',
+      source: 'CUSTOM',
+      channel: channel,
+      checker: {
+        type: CheckerType.Anomaly,
+        config: {
+          mode: 'any',
+          models: models,
+        },
+      },
+      customConfig: {
+        series: [
+          {
+            table: 'logs',
+            type: 'table',
+            where: where,
+            aggFn: AggFn.Count,
+            groupBy: [],
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+      historyWindow: 1440,
+      message: message,
+    });
+  } catch (e) {
+    logger.error({
+      message: 'error creating system alert',
+      teamId,
+      config,
+      error: serializeError(e),
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+export default async () => {
+  const teams = await Team.find({});
+  logger.info(`Checking system alerts for ${teams.length} teams`);
+  const promises: Promise<void>[] = [];
+
+  for (const team of teams) {
+    logger.info(`Processing team ${team.id}`);
+    const teamId = team.id;
+
+    for (const systemAlertConfig of SYSTEM_ALERT_CONFIGS) {
+      const existingAlert = await Alert.findOne(
+        {
+          team: teamId,
+          isSystem: true,
+          source: 'CUSTOM',
+          name: systemAlertConfig.name,
+        },
+        {},
+      );
+
+      if (!existingAlert) {
+        logger.info(
+          `Team ${teamId} is missing ${systemAlertConfig.name}, creating one`,
+        );
+
+        const defaultChannel: AlertChannel = {
+          type: 'webhook',
+          webhookId: 'YOUR_WEBHOOK_ID',
+        };
+
+        const alertPromise = createAlertIfMissing(
+          teamId,
+          defaultChannel,
+          systemAlertConfig,
+        );
+
+        promises.push(alertPromise);
+      }
+    }
+    await Promise.all(promises);
+  }
+};
diff --git a/packages/api/src/tasks/index.ts b/packages/api/src/tasks/index.ts
index 20a2a577..c7b43e76 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/tasks/index.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/tasks/index.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { serializeError } from 'serialize-error';
 
 import { IS_DEV } from '@/config';
 import { connectDB, mongooseConnection } from '@/models';
+import addSystemAlerts from '@/tasks/alerts/addSystemAlerts';
 import checkAnomalyAlerts from '@/tasks/alerts/checkAnomalyAlerts';
 import checkUserAlerts from '@/tasks/alerts/checkUserAlerts';
 import refreshPropertyTypeMappings from '@/tasks/refreshPropertyTypeMappings';
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ const main = async () => {
   const t0 = performance.now();
   logger.info(`Task [${taskName}] started at ${new Date()}`);
   switch (taskName) {
+    case 'add-system-alerts':
+      await addSystemAlerts();
+      break;
     // TODO: rename to check-users-alerts
     case 'check-alerts':
       await checkUserAlerts();