diff --git a/doc/admin/observability/alert_solutions.md b/doc/admin/observability/alert_solutions.md
index a5165651d12654..0df7cf658593b7 100644
--- a/doc/admin/observability/alert_solutions.md
+++ b/doc/admin/observability/alert_solutions.md
@@ -3150,7 +3150,7 @@ with your code hosts connections or networking issues affecting communication wi
 
 **Descriptions:**
 
-- <span class="badge badge-critical">critical</span> repo-updater: 0+ rate of growth of update queue length over 5 minutes for 30m0s
+- <span class="badge badge-critical">critical</span> repo-updater: 0+ rate of growth of update queue length over 5 minutes for 2h0m0s
 
 **Possible solutions:**
 
diff --git a/monitoring/definitions/repo_updater.go b/monitoring/definitions/repo_updater.go
index 7a301702ff3fd6..aa9d338c3a33b9 100644
--- a/monitoring/definitions/repo_updater.go
+++ b/monitoring/definitions/repo_updater.go
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ func RepoUpdater() *monitoring.Container {
 							Description: "rate of growth of update queue length over 5 minutes",
 							Query:       `max(deriv(src_repoupdater_sched_update_queue_length[5m]))`,
 							// Alert if the derivative is positive for longer than 30 minutes
-							Critical:          monitoring.Alert().Greater(0).For(30 * time.Minute),
+							Critical:          monitoring.Alert().Greater(0).For(120 * time.Minute),
 							Panel:             monitoring.Panel().Unit(monitoring.Number),
 							Owner:             monitoring.ObservableOwnerCloud,
 							PossibleSolutions: "Check repo-updater logs for indications that the queue is not being processed. The queue length should trend downwards over time as items are sent to GitServer",