diff --git a/config/jobs/kubeflow/kubeflow-periodics.yaml b/config/jobs/kubeflow/kubeflow-periodics.yaml
index 95d13fe2d117..3fdcfbcbfdc8 100644
--- a/config/jobs/kubeflow/kubeflow-periodics.yaml
+++ b/config/jobs/kubeflow/kubeflow-periodics.yaml
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ periodics:
   annotations:
     testgrid-dashboards: sig-big-data
     description: Periodic testing of Kubeflow on the latest master branch.
+    # TODO: use a public email group
+    testgrid-alert-email: kubeflow-engineering@google.com
+    testgrid-num-failures-to-alert: "3"
 - name: kubeflow-manifests-periodic-master
   interval: 8h
   labels:
diff --git a/config/jobs/kubeflow/kubeflow-postsubmits.yaml b/config/jobs/kubeflow/kubeflow-postsubmits.yaml
index 3b294e0649ca..b640d2abb707 100644
--- a/config/jobs/kubeflow/kubeflow-postsubmits.yaml
+++ b/config/jobs/kubeflow/kubeflow-postsubmits.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ postsubmits:
     annotations:
       testgrid-dashboards: sig-big-data
       description: Postsubmit tests for Kubeflow.
+      # TODO: use a public email group
       testgrid-alert-email: kubeflow-engineering@google.com
       testgrid-num-failures-to-alert: "3"
   kubeflow/kfctl: