# Active Rule Delete Alert **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Observability\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [July 5, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/active-rule-delete-alert/277823 "2021-07-05T11:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ephemeric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a698b9/32.png) [@ephemeric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ephemeric)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/active-rule-delete-alert/277823/1 "2021-07-05T11:34:52Z")
Hi, I have a rule called "Website", type "Uptime monitor status" and with "Actions Email". I added a monitor of type "icmp" to ping the website in my heartbeat.conf. I forgot our website does not respond to ICMP and have tried to disable said monitor and comment the lines too and restart heartbeat. It still shows as active in the rule and alerts are being sent via mail. I have had to mute said rule. It does not appear under the "uptime" app in the "monitors" section. That part of the GUI looks correct. How do I remove the stale uptime monitor status alert? Thank you. ![Screenshot 2021-07-05 at 13.32.03](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/3/d3e2481c92b80a01e73d2ee3b0d73cd36bb1e0bc.png) ![Screenshot 2021-07-05 at 13.31.41](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/d/5dee896912798aa1de11176cbf69c67e52345d2f.png) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/active-rule-delete-alert/277823/2 "2022-11-04T08:31:22Z")