diff --git a/apps/k8s01/mastodon/slo.yaml b/apps/k8s01/mastodon/slo.yaml
index 1c3cc5a69b17f9352f46a9b9efb99358f02501d9..e233b2ac4950533b9b39503ee6115e4ba13d17fe 100644
--- a/apps/k8s01/mastodon/slo.yaml
+++ b/apps/k8s01/mastodon/slo.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ spec:
       sli:
         events:
           errorQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="mastodon",ingress="mastodon",status=~"(5..|429)"}[{{.window}}]))
-          totalQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="mastodon",ingress="mastodon"}[{{.window}}]))
+          totalQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="mastodon",ingress="mastodon"}[{{.window}}])) > 0 OR vector(1)
       alerting:
         name: MastodonHighErrorRate
         labels:
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ spec:
               -
               sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_request_duration_seconds_bucket{exported_namespace="mastodon",ingress="mastodon",le="0.25",verb!="WATCH"}[{{.window}}]))
             )
-          totalQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_request_duration_seconds_count{exported_namespace="mastodon",ingress="mastodon",method!="WATCH"}[{{.window}}]))
+          totalQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_request_duration_seconds_count{exported_namespace="mastodon",ingress="mastodon",method!="WATCH"}[{{.window}}])) > 0 OR vector(1)
       alerting:
         name: MastodonLatencyAlert
         labels:
diff --git a/apps/k8s01/matrix/slo.yaml b/apps/k8s01/matrix/slo.yaml
index 47cb3e9a62885b1e28cff2ceaf94ddb9017795a8..a100f820f2e9e2e26b52204d49c41b12342693b7 100644
--- a/apps/k8s01/matrix/slo.yaml
+++ b/apps/k8s01/matrix/slo.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ spec:
       sli:
         events:
           errorQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="matrix",ingress="matrix-synapse",status=~"(5..|429)"}[{{.window}}]))
-          totalQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="matrix",ingress="matrix-synapse"}[{{.window}}]))
+          totalQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="matrix",ingress="matrix-synapse"}[{{.window}}])) > 0 OR vector(1)
       alerting:
         name: MatrixHighErrorRate
         labels:
diff --git a/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/slo.yaml b/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/slo.yaml
index 2275c3774313d0194f0892a7d8026115b2ebf12a..3c94b7d3eb2d2e3dc428d595a8cbf67e92071508 100644
--- a/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/slo.yaml
+++ b/apps/k8s01/nextcloud/slo.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ spec:
       sli:
         events:
           errorQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="nextcloud",ingress="nextcloud",status=~"(5..|429)"}[{{.window}}]))
-          totalQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="nextcloud",ingress="nextcloud"}[{{.window}}]))
+          totalQuery: sum(rate(nginx_ingress_controller_requests{exported_namespace="nextcloud",ingress="nextcloud"}[{{.window}}])) > 0 OR vector(1)
       alerting:
         name: NextcloudHighErrorRate
         labels: