SzymonC Hi, Alert use Lucene syntax only. I mean, to be precise - alerts use Query DSL, which uses Lucene. So if Lucene is to basic, you can always expand with other DSL structure. The query_string statement is just a option in query DSL. Similar to this: https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/query-dsl/full-text/query-string/ More about DSL: https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/query-dsl