---
title: "Backfill Alert Preferences"
method: POST
path: "/admin/alerts/backfill-preferences"
tags: ["Admin"]
---

# Backfill Alert Preferences

`POST /admin/alerts/backfill-preferences`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.kolens.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.kolens.ai/admin/alerts/backfill-preferences`
- Auth: none declared

Give every tracking/watchlist owner a default alert channel.

Returns ``{"candidates", "created", "skipped_existing", "dry_run"}``.

## Query parameters

- `dry_run` boolean

## Headers

- `x-admin-secret` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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