diff --git a/content/runbooks/etcd/etcdInsufficientMembers.md b/content/runbooks/etcd/etcdInsufficientMembers.md
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--- a/content/runbooks/etcd/etcdInsufficientMembers.md
+++ b/content/runbooks/etcd/etcdInsufficientMembers.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 This alert fires when there are fewer instances available than are needed by
 etcd to be healthy.
+This means that etcd cluster has not enough members in the cluster to create quorum.
 
 ## Impact
 
@@ -11,6 +12,9 @@ When etcd does not have a majority of instances available the Kubernetes and
 OpenShift APIs will reject read and write requests and operations that preserve
 the health of workloads cannot be performed.
 
+In general loosing quorum will switch etcd to read only, which effectively renders k8s api read only.
+It is possible to read the current state, but not possible to update it.
+
 ## Diagnosis
 
 This can kubectlcur multiple control plane nodes are powered off or are unable to