diff --git a/etcd/meta/prometheus.yml b/etcd/meta/prometheus.yml
index f9a006d..5a48f34 100644
--- a/etcd/meta/prometheus.yml
+++ b/etcd/meta/prometheus.yml
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
         severity: minor
         service: etcd
       annotations:
-        summary: "High number of HTTP requests are failing on etcd"
-        description: "{{ $value }}% of requests for the {{ $labels.method }} method failed on the {{ $labels.instance }} etcd instance."
+        summary: "High number of HTTP requests to etcd are failing"
+        description: "{{ $value }}% of HTTP {{ $labels.method }} requests to the etcd API failed on the {{ $labels.instance }} instance."
       {%- endraw %}
     EtcdInstanceNoLeader:
       if: "etcd_server_has_leader != 1"
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
         service: etcd
       annotations:
         summary: "Etcd instance is down"
-        description: "The etcd {{ $labels.instance }} instance is down for at least 2 minutes."
+        description: "The etcd {{ $labels.instance }} instance is down for 2 minutes."
       {%- endraw %}
     EtcdServiceDownMajor:
       {%- set instances_major_threshold_percent = monitoring.instances_major_threshold_percent|float %}
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
         service: etcd
       annotations:
         summary: "{{ instances_major_threshold_percent*100 }}% of etcd instances are down"
-        description: "{{ $value }}{%- endraw %} etcd instances are down (at least {{ instances_major_threshold_percent*100 }} for at least 2 minutes."
+        description: "{{ $value }}{%- endraw %} etcd instances (>= {{ instances_major_threshold_percent*100 }}) are down for 2 minutes."
     EtcdServiceOutage:
       if: "count(up{job='etcd'} == 0) == count(up{job='etcd'})"
       {%- raw %}