From e116254f32d6df67a220787c2f2fa350a2cdf015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paulo Dias <44772900+paulojmdias@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 16:05:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Alerting: Update createdBy field when silence is being
 Recreated (#115543)

---
 .../app/features/alerting/unified/components/silences/utils.ts  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/silences/utils.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/silences/utils.ts
index a0909f7e647..af3ba2cbfcb 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/silences/utils.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/silences/utils.ts
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export const getFormFieldsForSilence = (silence: Silence): SilenceFormFields =>
     startsAt: interval.start.toISOString(),
     endsAt: interval.end.toISOString(),
     comment: silence.comment,
-    createdBy: silence.createdBy,
+    createdBy: isExpired ? contextSrv.user.name : silence.createdBy,
     duration: intervalToAbbreviatedDurationString(interval),
     isRegex: false,
     matchers: silence.matchers?.map(matcherToMatcherField) || [],