# What does "OK" mean for a rule? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [July 13, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ok-mean-for-a-rule/278536 "2021-07-13T12:40:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sandra\_Schlichting](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandra_schlichting/32/84122_2.png) [@Sandra\_Schlichting](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sandra_Schlichting)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ok-mean-for-a-rule/278536/1 "2021-07-13T12:40:58Z")
Dear all =) What does it mean that a rule is "ok" as seen on this screenshot? I suppose I don't want anything but "Active"? ![rules-and-connectors-ui](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/c/fcfce252863eff2d21425cb71876d10d0c64da1f.png) Hugs, Sandra =) ---
**Author:** ![markov00](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markov00/32/33316_2.png) [@markov00](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markov00)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ok-mean-for-a-rule/278536/2 "2021-07-22T10:02:19Z")
Hi, from the documentation [Create and manage rules | Kibana Guide [7.16] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.x/create-and-manage-rules.html#_rule_status) ### Rule status A rule can have one of the following statuses: `active` The conditions for the rule have been met, and the associated actions should be invoked. `ok` The conditions for the rule were previously met, but no longer. Changed to `recovered` in the 7.14 release. `error` An error was encountered during rule execution. `pending` The rule has not yet executed. The rule was either just created, or enabled after being disabled. `unknown` A problem occurred when calculating the status. Most likely, something went wrong with the alerting code. ---
**Author:** ![Sandra\_Schlichting](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandra_schlichting/32/84122_2.png) [@Sandra\_Schlichting](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sandra_Schlichting)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ok-mean-for-a-rule/278536/3 "2021-07-22T11:27:54Z")
Dear Marco =) Thanks a lot for looking into this! What does "The conditions for the rule were previously met, but no longer" mean? In particularly "no longer"? I see `ok (recovered)` for 99% of all new rules I create, so I am concerned that they don't actually do anything. How can I turn an `ok/recovered` rule into `active`? Hugs, Sandra =) ---
**Author:** ![markov00](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markov00/32/33316_2.png) [@markov00](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markov00)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ok-mean-for-a-rule/278536/4 "2021-07-22T14:52:31Z")
Hey sandra, You are right, the docs is not very clear, but the OK and Active mean: - `Ok` means the rule is running fine, doesn’t detect anything worth alerting on - `Active` means the rule is finding things worth alerting on (firing actions) The alerting team opened a PR to improve the Docs > > > In this PR, I'm fixing the rule status documentation for "ok" status. It seemed …to previously define what the alert "ok" status meant. ---
**Author:** ![Sandra\_Schlichting](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandra_schlichting/32/84122_2.png) [@Sandra\_Schlichting](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sandra_Schlichting)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ok-mean-for-a-rule/278536/5 "2021-07-23T08:50:27Z")
Dear Marco, Those two last diescriptions, makes it very clear, that they mean. Thanks =) I would say as an user, it is very confusing that health and activity are mixed in under the Status column. `Unknown`, `pending`, `error`, and `OK` are health related, and `active` doesn't belong in that category. Changing `OK` to `recovering` will probably make it worse. Recovering sounds to me as, something have crashed (not been gracefully shut down), and that something is regenerating lost data. Think e.g. a database host with had its power cut. To me it would be better to keep `OK` and then either change `Active` to `OK and recently been active` or add a new Activity column with `cold` and `hot` states. Hugs, Sandra =) ---
**Author:** ![mikecote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mikecote/32/58549_2.png) [@mikecote](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikecote)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ok-mean-for-a-rule/278536/6 "2021-07-26T12:28:15Z")
Hi @Sandra_Schlichting, The documentation was confusing rule and alert statuses. So we removed "recovering" from the terminology as it has nothing to do with the rule and kept "active" and "ok". ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ok-mean-for-a-rule/278536/7 "2021-08-23T12:29:03Z")
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