diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/mixin/alerts/general.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/mixin/alerts/general.libsonnet
index 16f3e39c6053a011ccdfd32bcf0867b827372cdf..221d8a83b9dcf3ffd2fd5204b8df1f5d873fdb31 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/mixin/alerts/general.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/mixin/alerts/general.libsonnet
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
           {
             alert: 'TargetDown',
             annotations: {
-              message: '{{ printf "%.4g" $value }}% of the {{ $labels.job }}/{{ $labels.service }} targets in {{ $labels.namespace }} namespace are down.',
+              description: '{{ printf "%.4g" $value }}% of the {{ $labels.job }}/{{ $labels.service }} targets in {{ $labels.namespace }} namespace are down.',
             },
             expr: '100 * (count(up == 0) BY (job, namespace, service) / count(up) BY (job, namespace, service)) > 10',
             'for': '10m',
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
           {
             alert: 'Watchdog',
             annotations: {
-              message: |||
+              description: |||
                 This is an alert meant to ensure that the entire alerting pipeline is functional.
                 This alert is always firing, therefore it should always be firing in Alertmanager
                 and always fire against a receiver. There are integrations with various notification