https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Ambari-not-loading-changes-to-alerts-json/m-p/212408#M74434 <P>The alerts.json files are only used to seed alert definitions initially. After an alert definition has been created in the system, modification of that alert must be done through the REST API.</P><P>See: <A href="https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari-server/docs/api/v1/alert-definitions.md#create" target="_blank">https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari-server/docs/api/v1/alert-definitions.md#create</A></P><P>You can delete the alert definition as well. This will cause the alerts.json to be read in again on Ambari Server restart.</P> Fri, 09 Feb 2018 02:34:12 GMT jonathanhurley 2018-02-09T02:34:12Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Ambari-not-loading-changes-to-alerts-json/m-p/212407#M74433 <DIV>I am building am mpack for a service I would like to install in Ambari. The mpack installed properly but the alerts are not accurate. I tried to modify the alerts.json several times to fix the issue but Ambari keeps using the original version of the alerts.json. I restarted Ambari server several times but nothing worked.</DIV><DIV>How would I force Ambari to use the newly modified alerts.json</DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Theyaa.</DIV> Fri, 09 Feb 2018 02:24:48 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Ambari-not-loading-changes-to-alerts-json/m-p/212407#M74433 theyaa 2018-02-09T02:24:48Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Ambari-not-loading-changes-to-alerts-json/m-p/212408#M74434 <P>The alerts.json files are only used to seed alert definitions initially. After an alert definition has been created in the system, modification of that alert must be done through the REST API.</P><P>See: <A href="https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari-server/docs/api/v1/alert-definitions.md#create" target="_blank">https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari-server/docs/api/v1/alert-definitions.md#create</A></P><P>You can delete the alert definition as well. This will cause the alerts.json to be read in again on Ambari Server restart.</P> Fri, 09 Feb 2018 02:34:12 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Ambari-not-loading-changes-to-alerts-json/m-p/212408#M74434 jonathanhurley 2018-02-09T02:34:12Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Ambari-not-loading-changes-to-alerts-json/m-p/212409#M74435 <P>Thank you <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/485/jhurley.html" nodeid="485">@Jonathan Hurley</A>. this worked!</P> Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:27:01 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Ambari-not-loading-changes-to-alerts-json/m-p/212409#M74435 theyaa 2018-02-09T13:27:01Z