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Alert Policy

Alert Policy allows you to temporarily suppress (silence) camera anomaly alerts during defined periods, helping reduce unnecessary notifications during expected or planned events.

Overview​

Alert Policies are designed to control when alerts are sent, without affecting the underlying anomaly detection.

When a policy is active, VisionAlert continues analyzing cameras normally, but alerts and notifications are suppressed according to the policy configuration. This is especially useful for scenarios such as:

  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Planned downtime
  • Camera repositioning
  • Outside business hours
  • Temporary environmental conditions

How Alert Policies Work​

An Alert Policy defines:

  • Which cameras are affected
  • Which anomaly alerts should be suppressed
  • When the suppression is active

Policies can operate in two modes:

  • Continuous: Suppression runs uninterrupted during a defined time range
  • Recurring: Suppression runs only on specific days and times, repeating weekly

Policy Scope​

Cameras​

An Alert Policy can be applied to:

  • Specific cameras — only selected cameras are affected
  • All cameras — leaving the camera selection empty applies the policy globally across the license

This allows fine-grained control or broad suppression depending on your needs.

Anomaly Types​

Policies can suppress:

  • Specific anomaly alert types
  • Or all anomaly alerts when no type is explicitly selected

This flexibility allows you to silence only expected alerts (for example, offline during maintenance) while keeping others active.

Policy Validity Period​

Start and End Date​

Each policy has an optional validity window:

  • Starts at — when the policy becomes valid
  • Ends at — when the policy expires

If these fields are left empty:

  • The policy becomes valid immediately
  • The policy remains valid indefinitely

These fields define the overall lifetime of the policy, regardless of whether it is recurring.

Recurring Policies​

When Is Recurring is enabled, the policy operates on a repeating weekly schedule.

Recurring policies define:

  • Weekdays when the policy applies
    • Leaving this empty applies the policy every day
  • Start time — daily time when alert suppression begins
  • End time — daily time when alert suppression ends

Alert suppression occurs only within this daily time window, on the selected days.

Important Behavior​

  • Outside the configured time window, alerts are not suppressed
  • The recurring schedule runs only while the policy is within its validity period
  • The validity period does not replace the recurring schedule — it only limits when it can operate

Continuous (Non-Recurring) Policies​

If Is Recurring is disabled:

  • The policy runs continuously
  • Suppression is active for the entire duration defined by Starts at / Ends at
  • No daily schedule is applied

This mode is ideal for one-time events or extended maintenance windows.

Enabling and Disabling Policies​

Policies can be toggled on or off at any time:

  • Enabled — the policy is active and suppresses alerts
  • Disabled — the policy exists but has no effect

Disabling a policy immediately restores normal alert behavior.