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title: Reduce notifications and alerts
description: Elastic Security offers several features to help reduce the number of notifications and alerts generated by your detection rules. This table provides...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4226/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/reduce-notifications-alerts
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  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Security
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# Reduce notifications and alerts
Elastic Security offers several features to help reduce the number of notifications and alerts generated by your detection rules. This table provides a general comparison of these features, with links for more details:

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| [Rule action snoozing](/elastic/docs-content/pull/4226/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/manage-detection-rules#snooze-rule-actions)                | **Stops a specific rule’s notification actions from running**.Use to avoid unnecessary notifications from a specific rule. The rule continues to run and generate alerts during the snooze period, but its [notification actions](/elastic/docs-content/pull/4226/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/create-detection-rule#rule-response-action) don’t run.                                                                                                                                                 |
| [Maintenance window](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4226/explore-analyze/alerts-cases/alerts/maintenance-windows)      | **Prevents all rules' notification actions from running**.Use to avoid false alarms and unnecessary notifications during planned outages. All rules continue to run and generate alerts during the maintenance window, but their [notification actions](/elastic/docs-content/pull/4226/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/create-detection-rule#rule-notifications) don’t run. **Note**: Maintenance windows are a Kibana feature, configured outside of the Elastic Security app in **Stack Management**. |
| [Alert suppression](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4226/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/suppress-detection-alerts) | **Reduces repeated or duplicate alerts**.Use to reduce the number of alerts created when a rule meets its criteria repeatedly. Duplicate qualifying events are grouped, and only one alert is created for each group.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| [Rule exception](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4226/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/rule-exceptions)              | **Prevents a rule from creating alerts under specific conditions**.Use to reduce false positive alerts by preventing trusted processes and network activity from generating unnecessary alerts. You can configure an exception to be used by a single rule or shared among multiple rules, but they typically don’t affect *all* rules.                                                                                                                                                                      |