diff --git a/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rule-tests.yaml b/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rule-tests.yaml
index 40a489bd09cf0dfcf0c4cc7cdabbcc69a9f58644..7ad916f02215428e0ba3c87e171b65573fa75ce5 100644
--- a/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rule-tests.yaml
+++ b/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rule-tests.yaml
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ tests:
                       polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef has been monotonically
                       increasing for more than 10 minutes."
                 - exp_labels:
-                      severity: critical
+                      severity: warning
                       pod: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
                       instance: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
                       job: polkadot
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ tests:
             # same. Thus expect an alert.
             exp_alerts:
                 - exp_labels:
-                      severity: critical
+                      severity: warning
                       pod: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
                       instance: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
                       job: polkadot
diff --git a/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rules.yaml b/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rules.yaml
index 1aed87ad84f88b744410f491a03898d901591fb6..bc3243d732b4f7e54edffe35564aea4f55dae253 100644
--- a/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rules.yaml
+++ b/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rules.yaml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ groups:
     increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished[5m]) > 0'
     for: 30m
     labels:
-      severity: critical
+      severity: warning
     annotations:
       message: 'The transaction pool size on node {{ $labels.instance }} has
       been monotonically increasing for more than 30 minutes.'
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ groups:
     polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished > 10000'
     for: 5m
     labels:
-      severity: critical
+      severity: warning
     annotations:
       message: 'The transaction pool size on node {{ $labels.instance }} has
       been above 10_000 for more than 5 minutes.'