diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/configure-notifications/create-notification-policy.md b/docs/sources/alerting/configure-notifications/create-notification-policy.md
index bcd9d8a8064..3381cbd3137 100644
--- a/docs/sources/alerting/configure-notifications/create-notification-policy.md
+++ b/docs/sources/alerting/configure-notifications/create-notification-policy.md
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ An example of a valid matchers search input is:
 
 > All matched policies will be **exact** matches, we currently do not support regex-style or partial matching.
 
+## Caveat
+
+Mute timings are not inherited from a parent notification policy, they have to be configured in full on each level.
+
 ## Example
 
 An example of an alert configuration.