diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/Actions.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/Actions.tsx
index 8dd22260189..2bfdc1bef25 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/Actions.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/Actions.tsx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import React from 'react';
 import { AppEvents } from '@grafana/data';
 import { Dropdown, LinkButton, Menu } from '@grafana/ui';
 import appEvents from 'app/core/app_events';
+import MenuItemPauseRule from 'app/features/alerting/unified/MenuItemPauseRule';
 import { CombinedRule, RuleIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 import { AlertRuleAction, useAlertRuleAbility } from '../../hooks/useAbilities';
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ export const useAlertRulePageActions = ({ handleDelete, handleDuplicateRule }: P
       key="more-actions"
       overlay={
         <Menu>
+          {canEdit && <MenuItemPauseRule rule={rule} />}
           {canSilence && (
             <Menu.Item
               label="Silence"