diff --git a/docs/detections/alerts-ui-manage.asciidoc b/docs/detections/alerts-ui-manage.asciidoc
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@@ -308,3 +308,9 @@ is `host.name: "Windows-ArsenalFC"`.
 
 NOTE: Refer to <<timelines-ui>> for information on creating Timelines and Timeline
 templates. For information on how to add Timeline templates to rules, refer to <<rules-ui-create>>.
+
+[discrete]
+[[clean-up-alerts-sec]]
+=== Clean up alerts
+
+Manage the size of alert indices in your space by clearing out alerts that are older or infrequently accessed. You can do this by {kibana-ref}/view-alerts.html#clean-up-alerts[running an alert cleanup task], which deletes alerts according to the criteria that you define.