diff --git a/roles/float-infra-prometheus/templates/rules/alerts_system_health.conf.yml b/roles/float-infra-prometheus/templates/rules/alerts_system_health.conf.yml
index 209ec7412dd6a29816d92ed529cdd61695d9e264..faa4cfe686e2e60a1abb9257c91efb925ba7ffce 100644
--- a/roles/float-infra-prometheus/templates/rules/alerts_system_health.conf.yml
+++ b/roles/float-infra-prometheus/templates/rules/alerts_system_health.conf.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ groups:
       expr: node_md_degraded > 0
       for: 15m
       labels:
-        severity: warn
+        severity: page
       annotations:
         summary: "RAID device {{ $labels.md_device }} on {{ $labels.host }} is unhealthy"
         description: "The RAID device {{ $labels.md_device }} on {{ $labels.host }} is reporting a degraded state, which means that probably one or more of the disks in the array have failed."