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// * observability/monitoring/managing-alerts.adoc

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= Expiring silences

You can expire a single silence or multiple silences. Expiring a silence deactivates it permanently.

[NOTE]
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You cannot delete expired, silenced alerts.
Expired silences older than 120 hours are garbage collected.
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.Prerequisites

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* If you are a cluster administrator, you have access to the cluster as a user with the `cluster-admin` role.
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* If you are a cluster administrator, you have access to the cluster as a user with the `dedicated-admin` role.
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* If you are a non-administrator user, you have access to the cluster as a user with the following user roles:
** The `cluster-monitoring-view` cluster role, which allows you to access Alertmanager.
** The `monitoring-alertmanager-edit` role, which permits you to create and silence alerts.

.Procedure

. Go to *Observe* -> *Alerting* -> *Silences*.

. For the silence or silences you want to expire, select the checkbox in the corresponding row.

. Click *Expire 1 silence* to expire a single selected silence or *Expire _<n>_ silences* to expire multiple selected silences, where _<n>_ is the number of silences you selected.
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Alternatively, to expire a single silence you can click *Actions* and select *Expire silence* on the *Silence details* page for a silence.
