diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ca39d181c..47981f5c2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Changed
 
 - reduced sensitivity for lokiringunhealthy
+- added check if KSM was up 2 minutes ago in `WorkloadClusterCriticalPodNotRunningAWS` alert
 
 ## [2.144.0] - 2023-11-27
 
diff --git a/helm/prometheus-rules/templates/alerting-rules/aws.workload-cluster.rules.yml b/helm/prometheus-rules/templates/alerting-rules/aws.workload-cluster.rules.yml
index 0720535e6..f77d22f92 100644
--- a/helm/prometheus-rules/templates/alerting-rules/aws.workload-cluster.rules.yml
+++ b/helm/prometheus-rules/templates/alerting-rules/aws.workload-cluster.rules.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ spec:
       annotations:
         description: '{{`Critical pod {{ $labels.namespace }}/{{ $labels.pod }} is not running.`}}'
         opsrecipe: critical-pod-is-not-running/
-      expr: kube_pod_container_status_running{namespace="kube-system",container=~"(k8s-api-server|k8s-controller-manager|k8s-scheduler)"} != 1 or label_replace(absent(kube_pod_container_status_running{namespace="kube-system",container="k8s-api-server"}), "pod", "$1", "container", "(.+)") == 1 or label_replace(absent(kube_pod_container_status_running{namespace="kube-system",container="k8s-controller-manager"}), "pod", "$1", "container", "(.+)") == 1 or label_replace(absent(kube_pod_container_status_running{namespace="kube-system",container="k8s-scheduler"}), "pod", "$1", "container", "(.+)") == 1
+      expr: kube_pod_container_status_running{namespace="kube-system",container=~"(k8s-api-server|k8s-controller-manager|k8s-scheduler)"} != 1 or (label_replace(absent(kube_pod_container_status_running{namespace="kube-system",container="k8s-api-server"}), "pod", "$1", "container", "(.+)") == 1 or label_replace(absent(kube_pod_container_status_running{namespace="kube-system",container="k8s-controller-manager"}), "pod", "$1", "container", "(.+)") == 1 or label_replace(absent(kube_pod_container_status_running{namespace="kube-system",container="k8s-scheduler"}), "pod", "$1", "container", "(.+)") == 1) and (up{app="kube-state-metrics"} offset 2m)
       for: 20m
       labels:
         area: kaas