diff --git a/Documentation/etcd-mixin/mixin.libsonnet b/Documentation/etcd-mixin/mixin.libsonnet
index 96e1ae98e..3355eb407 100644
--- a/Documentation/etcd-mixin/mixin.libsonnet
+++ b/Documentation/etcd-mixin/mixin.libsonnet
@@ -233,6 +233,32 @@
               summary: 'etcd instance HTTP requests are slow.',
             },
           },
+         {
+            alert: 'etcdBackendQuotaLowSpace',
+            expr: |||
+              (etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_bytes/etcd_server_quota_backend_bytes)*100 > 95
+            ||| % $._config,
+            'for': '10m',
+            labels: {
+              severity: 'critical',
+            },
+            annotations: {
+              message: 'etcd cluster "{{ $labels.job }}": database size exceeds the defined quota on etcd instance {{ $labels.instance }}, please defrag or increase the quota as the writes to etcd will be disabled when it is full.',
+            },
+         },
+         {
+            alert: 'etcdExcessiveDatabaseGrowth',
+            expr: |||
+              increase(((etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_bytes/etcd_server_quota_backend_bytes)*100)[240m:1m]) > 50
+            ||| % $._config,
+            'for': '10m',
+            labels: {
+              severity: 'warning',
+            },
+            annotations: {
+              message: 'etcd cluster "{{ $labels.job }}": Observed surge in etcd writes leading to 50% increase in database size over the past four hours on etcd instance {{ $labels.instance }}, please check as it might be disruptive.',
+            },
+         },
         ],
       },
     ],
diff --git a/Documentation/etcd-mixin/test.yaml b/Documentation/etcd-mixin/test.yaml
index 8796339ca..2802f6502 100644
--- a/Documentation/etcd-mixin/test.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/etcd-mixin/test.yaml
@@ -116,4 +116,20 @@ tests:
       - eval_time: 10m
         alertname: etcdHighNumberOfLeaderChanges
         exp_alerts:
-
+ - interval: 1m
+    input_series:
+      - series: '((etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_bytes/etcd_server_quota_backend_bytes)*100){job="etcd",instance="10.10.10.0"}'
+        values: '0 10 20 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0'
+      - series: '((etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_bytes/etcd_server_quota_backend_bytes)*100){job="etcd",instance="10.10.10.1"}'
+        values: '0 0 10 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0'
+      - series: '((etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_bytes/etcd_server_quota_backend_bytes)*100){job="etcd",instance="10.10.10.2"}'
+        values: '0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0'
+    alert_rule_test:
+      - eval_time: 10m
+        alertname: etcdExcessiveDatabaseGrowth
+        exp_alerts:
+          - exp_labels:
+              job: etcd
+              severity: warning
+            exp_annotations:
+              message: 'etcd cluster "etcd": Observed surge in etcd writes leading to 50% increase in database size over the past four hours, please check as it might be disruptive.'