diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 154d819..de340d6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -72,3 +72,5 @@ Full integration docs: [coderifts.com/integrations/](https://coderifts.com/integ
 - [Integrations](https://coderifts.com/integrations/)
 - [Documentation](https://coderifts.com/docs/)
 - [Pricing](https://coderifts.com/pricing/)
+
+_Pipeline layout follows the reference implementation._
diff --git a/monitoring/alerts.yml b/monitoring/alerts.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ebc46ae..0000000
--- a/monitoring/alerts.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# Error-rate alert for the payments API (Prometheus alerting rule, Alertmanager routes on `team`).
-groups:
-  - name: payments-api
-    rules:
-      - alert: PaymentsApiHighErrorRate
-        expr: |
-          sum(rate(http_requests_total{job="payments-api", code=~"5.."}[5m]))
-            /
-          sum(rate(http_requests_total{job="payments-api"}[5m]))
-            > 0.05
-        for: 10m
-        labels:
-          severity: page
-          team: payments
-        annotations:
-          summary: "Payments API 5xx error rate above 5% for 10 minutes"
-          description: "{{ $value | humanizePercentage }} of payments-api requests returned 5xx over the last 5 minutes."
-          runbook_url: "https://coderifts.com/docs/"