diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-log-check b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-log-check
index 25ca4721f..240bde6a0 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-log-check
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-log-check
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ if [[ $EXCLUDE_FALSE_POSITIVE_ERRORS == 'Y' ]]; then
     EXCLUDED_ERRORS="$EXCLUDED_ERRORS|status 200"                   # false positive (request successful, contained error string in content)
     EXCLUDED_ERRORS="$EXCLUDED_ERRORS|app_layer.error"              # false positive (suricata 7) in stats.log e.g. app_layer.error.imap.parser | Total | 0
     EXCLUDED_ERRORS="$EXCLUDED_ERRORS|is not an ip string literal"  # false positive (Open Canary logging out blank IP addresses)
+    EXCLUDED_ERRORS="$EXCLUDED_ERRORS|syncing rule"                 # false positive (rule sync log line includes rule name which can contain 'error') 
 fi
 
 if [[ $EXCLUDE_KNOWN_ERRORS == 'Y' ]]; then
diff --git a/salt/soc/soc_soc.yaml b/salt/soc/soc_soc.yaml
index b4134baa7..308044d50 100644
--- a/salt/soc/soc_soc.yaml
+++ b/salt/soc/soc_soc.yaml
@@ -192,21 +192,22 @@ soc:
             syntax: yaml
             helpLink: notifications.html
             forcedType: string
-          customAlerters:
-            description: "Specify custom notification alerters to use when the Sigma rule contains the following tag: so.alerters.customAlerters. This setting can be duplicated to create new custom alerter configurations. Specify one alerter name (Ex: 'email') per line. Alerters refers to ElastAlert 2 alerters, as documented at https://elastalert2.readthedocs.io. A full update of the ElastAlert rule engine, via the Detections screen, is required in order to apply these changes. Requires a valid Security Onion license key."
-            global: True
-            helpLink: notifications.html
-            forcedType: "[]string"
-            duplicates: True
-            multiline: True
-          customAlertersParams:
-            description: "Optional configuration parameters for custom notification alerters, used when the Sigma rule contains the following tag: so.params.customAlertersParams. This setting can be duplicated to create new custom alerter configurations. Use YAML format for these parameters, and reference the ElastAlert 2 documentation, located at https://elastalert2.readthedocs.io, for available alerters and their required configuration parameters. A full update of the ElastAlert rule engine, via the Detections screen, is required in order to apply these changes. Requires a valid Security Onion license key."
-            global: True
-            multiline: True
-            syntax: yaml
-            helpLink: notifications.html
-            duplicates: True
-            forcedType: string
+          additionalUserDefinedNotifications:
+            customAlerters:
+              description: "Specify custom notification alerters to use when the Sigma rule contains the following tag: so.alerters.customAlerters. This setting can be duplicated to create new custom alerter configurations. Specify one alerter name (Ex: 'email') per line. Alerters refers to ElastAlert 2 alerters, as documented at https://elastalert2.readthedocs.io. A full update of the ElastAlert rule engine, via the Detections screen, is required in order to apply these changes. Requires a valid Security Onion license key."
+              global: True
+              helpLink: notifications.html
+              forcedType: "[]string"
+              duplicates: True
+              multiline: True
+            customAlertersParams:
+              description: "Optional configuration parameters for custom notification alerters, used when the Sigma rule contains the following tag: so.params.customAlertersParams. This setting can be duplicated to create new custom alerter configurations. Use YAML format for these parameters, and reference the ElastAlert 2 documentation, located at https://elastalert2.readthedocs.io, for available alerters and their required configuration parameters. A full update of the ElastAlert rule engine, via the Detections screen, is required in order to apply these changes. Requires a valid Security Onion license key."
+              global: True
+              multiline: True
+              syntax: yaml
+              helpLink: notifications.html
+              duplicates: True
+              forcedType: string
           autoEnabledSigmaRules:
             default: &autoEnabledSigmaRules
               description: 'Sigma rules to automatically enable on initial import. Format is $Ruleset+$Level - for example, for the core community ruleset and critical level rules: core+critical. These will be applied based on role if defined and default if not.'