---
title: Manage action policies
description: Manage action policies: turn them on or off, snooze them so they don't invoke workflows, and rotate API keys.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/manage-action-policies
products:
  - Elastic Documentation
  - Kibana
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Experimental in 9.5
---

# Manage action policies
After you create action policies in Kibana Universal Alerting, you can view and edit their details, enable or disable them, snooze them during planned outages, and rotate their API keys. To monitor dispatcher activity and review execution outcomes, refer to [Review action policy execution history](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/review-action-policy-execution-history).
To view your action policies, go to **Alerting** → **Action Policies** in the Observability navigation menu, or find **Action Policies** using the [global search field](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/find-apps-and-objects).

## View and edit an action policy

The action policy list shows who created and last updated each policy, along with quick actions to clone or delete one. Open a policy to view or edit its scope, grouping mode, frequency, and destinations.
Deleting a rule doesn't delete the action policies that applied to its alerts. Delete those policies separately when no remaining rule needs them.
<applies-to>Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available</applies-to> <applies-to>Elastic Stack: Planned</applies-to> To check which alerts a policy applies to, open the policy and read **Policy scope**. It lists the policy's [routing tags](/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/create-configure-action-policy#routing-tags) and query. A policy with neither shows **This policy matches all alerts.** To list the rules that open alerts and have at least one of the policy's routing tags, select **See all affected rules**.

## Enable, disable, and snooze an action policy

You can disable an action policy so the dispatcher doesn't evaluate it for new alerts. You can snooze an action policy for a defined window so it doesn't invoke workflows during that period. The dispatcher skips action policies that aren't enabled or are snoozed.
<note>
  Snoozing an action policy differs from [snoozing an alert](/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/reduce-notification-noise#snooze-scope). When you snooze an action policy, the dispatcher pauses and silences every alert series the action policy applies to. When you snooze an alert, you target one specific series before action policy evaluation runs, silencing it regardless of which action policy applies to it. Use alert snooze when you want to quiet a specific recurring alert without affecting other series the same action policy applies to.
</note>


### Pause dispatch during a maintenance window

During a [maintenance window](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/alerting/alerts/maintenance-windows), action policies stop invoking workflows automatically. You don't need to configure the action policy. Rule evaluation continues and alerts are still recorded in `.rule-events`. Configure Maintenance windows separately, not on the action policy.

## Rotate an action policy's API key

You can rotate the API key used to run an action policy's workflows without changing its scope or destinations. Use the **Update API key** action on one action policy or for multiple selected action policies.

## Manage multiple action policies at once

On the action policies list, select one or more action policies to enable, disable, snooze, and do more in bulk. **Select all** selects every action policy on the current page of results. Clear the selection before changing filters if you need a different set.

## Related pages

- [Create and configure an action policy](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/create-configure-action-policy): Set up or update the action policies you manage here.
- [Review action policy execution history](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/review-action-policy-execution-history): Check dispatcher outcomes and investigate unexpected notification behavior.
- [Reduce notification noise](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/8924/explore-analyze/alerting/esql/action-policies/reduce-notification-noise): Silence alerts by acknowledging, snoozing, or resolving them.