diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/AlertingPlugin.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/AlertingPlugin.kt
index 4ca201f60..1f64d4305 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/AlertingPlugin.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/AlertingPlugin.kt
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import org.opensearch.alerting.action.GetRemoteIndexesAction
 import org.opensearch.alerting.action.SearchEmailAccountAction
 import org.opensearch.alerting.action.SearchEmailGroupAction
 import org.opensearch.alerting.alerts.AlertIndices
+import org.opensearch.alerting.alerts.AlertIndices.Companion.ALERT_CONFIG_INDEX
+import org.opensearch.alerting.alerts.AlertIndices.Companion.ALL_ALERT_INDEX_PATTERN
 import org.opensearch.alerting.comments.CommentsIndices
 import org.opensearch.alerting.core.JobSweeper
 import org.opensearch.alerting.core.ScheduledJobIndices
@@ -114,16 +116,13 @@ import org.opensearch.core.xcontent.XContentParser
 import org.opensearch.env.Environment
 import org.opensearch.env.NodeEnvironment
 import org.opensearch.index.IndexModule
+import org.opensearch.indices.SystemIndexDescriptor
 import org.opensearch.monitor.jvm.JvmStats
 import org.opensearch.painless.spi.Allowlist
 import org.opensearch.painless.spi.AllowlistLoader
 import org.opensearch.painless.spi.PainlessExtension
 import org.opensearch.percolator.PercolatorPluginExt
-import org.opensearch.plugins.ActionPlugin
-import org.opensearch.plugins.ExtensiblePlugin
-import org.opensearch.plugins.ReloadablePlugin
-import org.opensearch.plugins.ScriptPlugin
-import org.opensearch.plugins.SearchPlugin
+import org.opensearch.plugins.*
 import org.opensearch.repositories.RepositoriesService
 import org.opensearch.rest.RestController
 import org.opensearch.rest.RestHandler
@@ -139,7 +138,7 @@ import java.util.function.Supplier
  * It also adds [Monitor.XCONTENT_REGISTRY], [SearchInput.XCONTENT_REGISTRY], [QueryLevelTrigger.XCONTENT_REGISTRY],
  * [BucketLevelTrigger.XCONTENT_REGISTRY], [ClusterMetricsInput.XCONTENT_REGISTRY] to the [NamedXContentRegistry] so that we are able to deserialize the custom named objects.
  */
-internal class AlertingPlugin : PainlessExtension, ActionPlugin, ScriptPlugin, ReloadablePlugin, SearchPlugin, PercolatorPluginExt() {
+internal class AlertingPlugin : PainlessExtension, ActionPlugin, ScriptPlugin, ReloadablePlugin, SearchPlugin, SystemIndexPlugin, PercolatorPluginExt() {
 
     override fun getContextAllowlists(): Map<ScriptContext<*>, List<Allowlist>> {
         val whitelist = AllowlistLoader.loadFromResourceFiles(javaClass, "org.opensearch.alerting.txt")
@@ -426,6 +425,13 @@ internal class AlertingPlugin : PainlessExtension, ActionPlugin, ScriptPlugin, R
         return listOf(TriggerScript.CONTEXT)
     }
 
+    override fun getSystemIndexDescriptors(settings : Settings): Collection<SystemIndexDescriptor> {
+        return listOf(
+            SystemIndexDescriptor(ALL_ALERT_INDEX_PATTERN, "Alerting Plugin system index pattern"),
+            SystemIndexDescriptor(ALERT_CONFIG_INDEX, "Alerting Plugin Configuration index")
+        )
+    }
+
     override fun reload(settings: Settings) {
         runner.reloadDestinationSettings(settings)
     }
diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/alerts/AlertIndices.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/alerts/AlertIndices.kt
index 64c62f926..12d57c439 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/alerts/AlertIndices.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/alerts/AlertIndices.kt
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ class AlertIndices(
         /** The in progress alert history index. */
         const val ALERT_INDEX = ".opendistro-alerting-alerts"
 
+        const val ALERT_CONFIG_INDEX = ".opendistro-alerting-config"
+
         /** The alias of the index in which to write alert history */
         const val ALERT_HISTORY_WRITE_INDEX = ".opendistro-alerting-alert-history-write"