# How to remove no-data alert for removed host?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-no-data-alert-for-removed-host/359642
**Category:** Elastic Observability
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [May 16, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-no-data-alert-for-removed-host/359642 "2024-05-16T14:57:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![herrdommel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/herrdommel/32/134552_2.png) [@herrdommel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/herrdommel)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-no-data-alert-for-removed-host/359642/1 "2024-05-16T14:57:06Z")

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Hi all,

I have a metric threshold alert rule configured in Kibana that alerts me on high disk usage. This is grouped by host name. One host was removed and a no data alert was created. How can I get rid of this alert?

I'm running Elastic Stack Version 8.7.0.

Here's the alert rule

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/0/40b927f87d36f4917b4571dce34138f638b2c9ce.png)

I already tried to delete the alert from .internal.alerts-observability.metrics.alerts-default-xxxxxx index but it gets recreated.

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### Author: ![herrdommel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/herrdommel/32/134552_2.png) [@herrdommel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/herrdommel)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-no-data-alert-for-removed-host/359642/2 "2024-05-16T14:58:32Z")

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This is how the alert is shown. I deleted it from the index today but it got recreated right on next rule execution. You can see from "duration" that the host is long gone.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/d/0de9a11e51f4a36a8016d65a39fd66049e4280df.png)

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### Author: ![maryam-saeidi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maryam-saeidi/32/126947_2.png) [@maryam-saeidi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maryam-saeidi)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-no-data-alert-for-removed-host/359642/3 "2024-05-16T15:58:23Z")

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Hi @herrdommel ,

We added the possibility of [untracking these types of alerts in 8.14.0](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/179374); since you are using the 8.7.0 version, you can use one of the workarounds mentioned in this [ticket](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/161621).

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### Author: ![herrdommel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/herrdommel/32/134552_2.png) [@herrdommel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/herrdommel)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-no-data-alert-for-removed-host/359642/4 "2024-05-16T16:52:05Z")

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Thanks for the fast response. I'll give it a try tomorrow 🙂

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### Author: ![herrdommel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/herrdommel/32/134552_2.png) [@herrdommel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/herrdommel)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-no-data-alert-for-removed-host/359642/5 "2024-05-17T09:07:12Z")

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8.14.0 is not yet release but the workaround is fine for now. Thanks!