# Alerting Issue - Can't Save Rule after turning off Match Query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-issue-cant-save-rule-after-turning-off-match-query/364856>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [August 13, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-issue-cant-save-rule-after-turning-off-match-query/364856 "2024-08-13T19:17:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-issue-cant-save-rule-after-turning-off-match-query/364856/1 "2024-08-13T19:17:08Z")

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Hello,  
I am using Metric Threshold and I noticed that everytime I create a rule. I see that if I deselect the "If alert matches a query"

It stops me from saving my rule.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/0/40baf09710fcafc24e64d70251ceb5e1f956aaf0.png)

The there's no way to stop this unless I add condition to the query or delete the alert.

Is this a known issue?