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Created by Emmanuel GORSE
Created on Mar 26, 2026

Change withDefaultAlertSettings on existing project

What problem are you trying to solve?

Focus on the what and why of the need you have, not the how you'd like it solved.

We have moved the alerts settings of our Atlas project in a Terraform IAC and we monitor the number of alerts settings in the projects and in the Terraform state to detect if a user has created an alert directly in the Atlas UI instead of using the IAC. But Atlas sometimes create new alerts in our existing project and it creates false positives.

What would you like to see happen?

Describe the desired outcome or enhancement.

Option in Atlas UI or API to set withDefaultAlertSettings to false on existing Atlas projects.

Why is this important to you or your team?

Explain how the request adds value or solves a business need.

With the ability to disable the setting we will no longer have false positives when detecting alerts settings created outside of the IAC.

What steps, if any, are you taking today to manage this problem?

Manual delete of the automatically created alerts settings.