Key questions about this property
The answers below summarize the purpose, scope, default effect, and review scenarios for this property.
| What does it do? |
Limits the number of open alerts queried by the self-health monitor, using 10,000 when no value is set. |
| What area does it affect? |
Event Management self-health monitoring |
| What does the default mean? |
The default value is "10000", which sets the baseline numeric behavior for this property. |
| When should you review it? |
When adjusting the number of open alerts the self-health monitor can query or display |
Property record
No out of the box record exists. ServiceNow scripts read this property and use the default value shown until you create it.
| Property name |
evt_mgmt.max_alerts_to_query_in_self_health |
| Type |
integer |
| Application |
Not stated |
| Default value |
10000 |
| Description |
Not stated |
Sources
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Health Monitor Script: OpenAlertScript
The health monitor reads this setting to cap how many open alerts it queries; if the display limit is higher, the query is capped at this value, which can affect how many alerts users see. If the setting is missing, the code uses 10,000.
/em_monitor_scripts.do?sys_id=7c9c1ae7db261300851cf1910f9619af
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