---
title: stack kb alerting-v2 post-alerting-v2-action-policies cli command
description: Create an action policy Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4302/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/kb/alerting-v2/post-alerting-v2-action-policies
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack kb alerting-v2 post-alerting-v2-action-policies cli command
<cli-modifiers>
</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack kb alerting-v2 post-alerting-v2-action-policies \
  --description <description> \
  --destinations <destinations> \
  --name <name> \
  [options]
```

Create an action policy
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--description string required">
    A description of the action policy.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--destinations string[] required">
    The list of destinations. At least one is required.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--destinations` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--name string required">
    The name of the action policy.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--group-by string[]">
    The fields used to group alerts.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--group-by` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--grouping-mode string">
    The grouping mode for alert notifications.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--matcher string">
    Selects the alerts this policy applies to. Set `tags` to match alerts from rules with those tags. Set `expression` to a KQL query, which will be evaluated against each alert. <br/><br/> If you set both `tags` and `expression`, an alert must match the tags and the expression for the policy to apply. When `matcher` is `null`, or when both `tags` and `expression` are empty, the policy applies to all alerts.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--throttle string">
    The throttle configuration for notifications.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--no-validate">
    skip input validation and send the request as-is
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--output-fields string">
    comma-separated list of fields to include in output (dot-notation supported)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--output-template string">
    Mustache-like template for custom text output (e.g. "{{id}}: {{name}}")
  </definition>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>