diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 29262191..1108d2d7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed
+
+- Change `KubeletVolumeSpaceTooLow` to only page when there are 500MB or less of space left, letting the node-problem-detector handle the rest.
+
 ## [4.21.1] - 2024-10-25
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/helm/prometheus-rules/templates/kaas/turtles/alerting-rules/storage.workload-cluster.rules.yml b/helm/prometheus-rules/templates/kaas/turtles/alerting-rules/storage.workload-cluster.rules.yml
index e3c82b0f..72b7d6e0 100644
--- a/helm/prometheus-rules/templates/kaas/turtles/alerting-rules/storage.workload-cluster.rules.yml
+++ b/helm/prometheus-rules/templates/kaas/turtles/alerting-rules/storage.workload-cluster.rules.yml
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ spec:
       # When this happens, the problem_gauge metric has value 1, so we do a multiply join on that metric - 1 to get 0 when the metric is present and active, and keep the series values that are > 0. 
       # The right hand side of the or is necessary because we need to be alerted in clusters without the node-problem-detector.
       # Note that we add 1 to the disk free space so we still get alerted when the free bytes are 0.
-      # We are also alerted if the free space is less than 2GB for 30 minutes.
-      expr: (( node_filesystem_free_bytes{cluster_type="workload_cluster",mountpoint=~"(/rootfs)?/var/lib/kubelet"} +1 < (2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)) * on (node, cluster_type, cluster_id, installation, organization, pipeline, region, customer) (1 - problem_gauge{reason="KubeletDiskIsFull"}) or sum (node_filesystem_free_bytes{cluster_type="workload_cluster",mountpoint=~"(/rootfs)?/var/lib/kubelet"} +1 < (2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)) by (node, cluster_type, cluster_id, installation, organization, pipeline, region, customer)) > 0
+      # We are also alerted if the free space is less than 500MB for 30 minutes.
+      expr: (( node_filesystem_free_bytes{cluster_type="workload_cluster",mountpoint=~"(/rootfs)?/var/lib/kubelet"} +1 < (500 * 1024 * 1024)) * on (node, cluster_type, cluster_id, installation, organization, pipeline, region, customer) (1 - problem_gauge{reason="KubeletDiskIsFull"}) or sum (node_filesystem_free_bytes{cluster_type="workload_cluster",mountpoint=~"(/rootfs)?/var/lib/kubelet"} +1 < (500 * 1024 * 1024)) by (node, cluster_type, cluster_id, installation, organization, pipeline, region, customer)) > 0
       for: 60m
       labels:
         area: kaas