openshift-docs/modules/monitoring-managing-silences.adoc

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= Managing silences

You can create a silence for an alert in the {product-title} web console in both the *Administrator* and *Developer* perspectives.
After you create a silence, you will not receive notifications about an alert when the alert fires.

Creating silences is useful in scenarios where you have received an initial alert notification, and you do not want to receive further notifications during the time in which you resolve the underlying issue causing the alert to fire.

When creating a silence, you must specify whether it becomes active immediately or at a later time. You must also set a duration period after which the silence expires.

After you create silences, you can view, edit, and expire them.