QUESTION: Are alert definition changes used immediately?

[sgarg7]

Since the alerts are scheduled onto the Kafka queue and read by the alert client, what happens to the queued instances when an alert definition is updated? Does the alert client execute the old alert definitions? Are new instances also scheduled immediately and given preference over the old ones?
If there is a delay between updating the alert definition and the alert client picking it up, what is this delay dependent on?

[sgarg7]

Can this question be answered? My experience has been that the alerts that have already been scheduled using the old definition run as scheduled. Only newly scheduled alerts contain changes.

[bsura]

Apologies for the late reply. There is a refreshInterval, which determines how frequently the alert definitions must be updated in the scheduler. So depending on when the alert is updated, there could be a maximum delay of up to "refreshInterval" before the updated alert definition can be evaluated.