diff --git a/docs/components/rule.md b/docs/components/rule.md
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--- a/docs/components/rule.md
+++ b/docs/components/rule.md
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The most important metrics to alert on are:
 indicate connection, incompatibility or misconfiguration problems.
 
 * `prometheus_rule_evaluation_failures_total`. If greater than 0, it means that that rule failed to be evaluated, which results in
-either gap in rule or potentially ignored alert. Alert heavily on this if this happens for longer than your alert thresholds.
+either gap in rule or potentially ignored alert. This metric might indicate problems on the queryAPI endpoint you use. Alert heavily on this if this happens for longer than your alert thresholds.
 `strategy` label will tell you if failures comes from rules that tolerate [partial response](rule.md#partial-response) or not.
 
 * `prometheus_rule_group_last_duration_seconds < prometheus_rule_group_interval_seconds`  If the difference is large, it means