diff --git a/.github/workflows/grafana-alertcheck-release.yml b/.github/workflows/grafana-alertcheck-release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4f946b18f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/grafana-alertcheck-release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: Grafana Alertcheck Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - grafana-alertcheck/v*
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Build and Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment: integration
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Set up Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v7
+        with:
+          go-version-file: ./grafana-alertcheck/go.mod
+          cache-dependency-path: ./grafana-alertcheck/go.mod
+      - name: Goreleaser Release
+        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@f06c13b6b1a9625abc9e6e439d9c05a8f2190e94 # v7.2.3
+        with:
+          distribution: goreleaser-pro
+          version: "~> v2"
+          args: release --clean -f ./grafana-alertcheck/.goreleaser.yaml
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          GORELEASER_KEY: ${{ secrets.GORELEASER_KEY }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index 4b4bc20c5..4146daa5f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ jobs:
           - path: parrot
             vm: ubuntu-latest
             regex: ./...
+          - path: grafana-alertcheck
+            vm: ubuntu-latest
+            regex: ./...
           - path: tools/workflowresultparser
             vm: ubuntu-latest
             regex: ./...
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 300ded3f9..dffcf974c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -84,4 +84,6 @@ parrot/parrot
 # Devenv (generated manually)
 devenv/
 # Generated TOML definitions
-book/src/framework/developer_environment/**.toml
\ No newline at end of file
+book/src/framework/developer_environment/**.toml
+
+tmp/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/grafana-alertcheck/.goreleaser.yaml b/grafana-alertcheck/.goreleaser.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..09e6032cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grafana-alertcheck/.goreleaser.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://goreleaser.com/static/schema-pro.json
+version: 2
+project_name: grafana-alertcheck
+
+dist: grafana-alertcheck/dist
+
+monorepo:
+  tag_prefix: grafana-alertcheck/
+  dir: grafana-alertcheck
+
+builds:
+  - id: grafana-alertcheck
+    main: ./cmd/grafana-alertcheck/main.go
+    ldflags:
+      - -s
+      - -w
+      - -X github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-testing-framework/grafana-alertcheck.version={{.Version}}
+      - -X github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-testing-framework/grafana-alertcheck.commit={{.ShortCommit}}
+      - -X github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-testing-framework/grafana-alertcheck.date={{.CommitDate}}
+      - -X github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-testing-framework/grafana-alertcheck.builtBy=goreleaser
+    goos:
+      - linux
+      - darwin
+    goarch:
+      - amd64
+      - arm64
+    binary: grafana-alertcheck
+    env:
+      - CGO_ENABLED=0
+
+before:
+  hooks:
+    - sh -c "cd grafana-alertcheck && go mod tidy"
diff --git a/grafana-alertcheck/README.md b/grafana-alertcheck/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..43cc03fc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grafana-alertcheck/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# grafana-alertcheck
+
+A CD quality gate for Grafana alerts: bookend a release with `watch` (record) and `check` (classify) to
+answer whether any watched alert was in a bad state during the release window.
+
+Under construction.
diff --git a/grafana-alertcheck/cmd/grafana-alertcheck/main.go b/grafana-alertcheck/cmd/grafana-alertcheck/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..150d617d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grafana-alertcheck/cmd/grafana-alertcheck/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package main
+
+import "os"
+
+func main() {
+	os.Exit(2)
+}
diff --git a/grafana-alertcheck/go.mod b/grafana-alertcheck/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b0c8511ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grafana-alertcheck/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-testing-framework/grafana-alertcheck
+
+go 1.26.6
diff --git a/grafana-alertcheck/internal/gate/gate.go b/grafana-alertcheck/internal/gate/gate.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..262a101a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grafana-alertcheck/internal/gate/gate.go
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+// Package gate implements the grafana-alertcheck coverage-and-classification gate.
+package gate