diff --git a/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rule-tests.yaml b/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rule-tests.yaml
index 069cfaf977..288750be3c 100644
--- a/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rule-tests.yaml
+++ b/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rule-tests.yaml
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ tests:
               pod="polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef",
               instance="polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef",
             }'
-            values: '10+1x30' # 10 11 12 13 .. 40
+            values: '11+1x10 22+2x30 10043x5'
 
           - series: 'polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished{
               job="polkadot",
               pod="polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef",
               instance="polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef",
             }'
-            values: '0x30' # 0 0 0 0 .. 0
+            values: '0+1x42 42x5'
 
           - series: 'polkadot_block_height{
               status="best", job="polkadot",
@@ -161,11 +161,17 @@ tests:
           # Transaction queue
           ######################################################################
 
-          - eval_time: 10m
-            alertname: TransactionQueueSize
-            exp_alerts:
           - eval_time: 11m
-            alertname: TransactionQueueSize
+            alertname: TransactionQueueSizeIncreasing
+            # Number of validations scheduled and finished both grow at a rate
+            # of 1 in the first 10 minutes, thereby the queue is not increasing
+            # in size, thus don't expect an alert.
+            exp_alerts:
+          - eval_time: 22m
+            alertname: TransactionQueueSizeIncreasing
+            # Number of validations scheduled is growing twice as fast as the
+            # number of validations finished after minute 10. Thus expect
+            # warning alert after 20 minutes.
             exp_alerts:
                 - exp_labels:
                       severity: warning
@@ -173,12 +179,14 @@ tests:
                       instance: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
                       job: polkadot
                   exp_annotations:
-                      message: "The node polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef has more
-                      than 10 transactions in the queue for more than 10
-                      minutes"
-
-          - eval_time: 31m
-            alertname: TransactionQueueSize
+                      message: "The transaction pool size on node
+                      polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef has been monotonically
+                      increasing for the last 10 minutes."
+          - eval_time: 43m
+            alertname: TransactionQueueSizeIncreasing
+            # Number of validations scheduled is growing twice as fast as the
+            # number of validations finished after minute 10. Thus expect
+            # both warning and critical alert after 40 minutes.
             exp_alerts:
                 - exp_labels:
                       severity: warning
@@ -186,18 +194,33 @@ tests:
                       instance: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
                       job: polkadot
                   exp_annotations:
-                      message: "The node polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef has more
-                      than 10 transactions in the queue for more than 10
-                      minutes"
+                      message: "The transaction pool size on node
+                      polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef has been monotonically
+                      increasing for the last 10 minutes."
                 - exp_labels:
                       severity: critical
                       pod: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
                       instance: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
                       job: polkadot
                   exp_annotations:
-                      message: "The node polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef has more
-                      than 10 transactions in the queue for more than 30
-                      minutes"
+                      message: "The transaction pool size on node
+                      polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef has been monotonically
+                      increasing for the last 30 minutes."
+          - eval_time: 49m
+            alertname: TransactionQueueSizeHigh
+            # After minute 43 the number of validations scheduled jumps up
+            # drastically while the number of validations finished stays the
+            # same. Thus expect an alert.
+            exp_alerts:
+                - exp_labels:
+                      severity: critical
+                      pod: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
+                      instance: polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef
+                      job: polkadot
+                  exp_annotations:
+                      message: "The transaction pool size on node
+                      polkadot-abcdef01234-abcdef has been above 10_000 for the
+                      last 5 minutes."
 
           ######################################################################
           # Networking
diff --git a/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rules.yaml b/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rules.yaml
index 06d204f7af..2ed3889a2c 100644
--- a/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rules.yaml
+++ b/substrate/.maintain/monitoring/alerting-rules/alerting-rules.yaml
@@ -73,24 +73,33 @@ groups:
   # Transaction queue
   ##############################################################################
 
-  - alert: TransactionQueueSize
-    expr: 'polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled -
-    polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished > 10'
+  - alert: TransactionQueueSizeIncreasing
+    expr: 'increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled[5m]) -
+    increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished[5m]) > 0'
     for: 10m
     labels:
       severity: warning
     annotations:
-      message: 'The node {{ $labels.instance }} has more than 10 transactions in
-      the queue for more than 10 minutes'
-  - alert: TransactionQueueSize
-    expr: 'polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled -
-    polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished > 10'
+      message: 'The transaction pool size on node {{ $labels.instance }} has
+      been monotonically increasing for the last 10 minutes.'
+  - alert: TransactionQueueSizeIncreasing
+    expr: 'increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled[5m]) -
+    increase(polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished[5m]) > 0'
     for: 30m
     labels:
       severity: critical
     annotations:
-      message: 'The node {{ $labels.instance }} has more than 10 transactions in
-      the queue for more than 30 minutes'
+      message: 'The transaction pool size on node {{ $labels.instance }} has
+      been monotonically increasing for the last 30 minutes.'
+  - alert: TransactionQueueSizeHigh
+    expr: 'polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_scheduled -
+    polkadot_sub_txpool_validations_finished > 10000'
+    for: 5m
+    labels:
+      severity: critical
+    annotations:
+      message: 'The transaction pool size on node {{ $labels.instance }} has
+      been above 10_000 for the last 5 minutes.'
 
   ##############################################################################
   # Networking