diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/BucketLevelMonitorRunner.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/BucketLevelMonitorRunner.kt
index 3e35b2997..47fef3edb 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/BucketLevelMonitorRunner.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/BucketLevelMonitorRunner.kt
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ import org.opensearch.alerting.util.getCancelAfterTimeInterval
 import org.opensearch.alerting.util.getCombinedTriggerRunResult
 import org.opensearch.alerting.util.printsSampleDocData
 import org.opensearch.alerting.workflow.WorkflowRunContext
-import org.opensearch.common.unit.TimeValue
 import org.opensearch.client.Client
+import org.opensearch.common.unit.TimeValue
 import org.opensearch.common.xcontent.LoggingDeprecationHandler
 import org.opensearch.common.xcontent.XContentType
 import org.opensearch.commons.alerting.model.Alert
diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/DocumentLevelMonitorRunner.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/DocumentLevelMonitorRunner.kt
index 3654a136a..51a32b642 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/DocumentLevelMonitorRunner.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/DocumentLevelMonitorRunner.kt
@@ -699,36 +699,6 @@ class DocumentLevelMonitorRunner : MonitorRunner() {
         return indexCreationDate > lastExecutionTime.toEpochMilli()
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Get the current max seq number of the shard. We find it by searching the last document
-     *  in the primary shard.
-     */
-    private suspend fun getMaxSeqNo(client: Client, index: String, shard: String): Long {
-        val request: SearchRequest = SearchRequest()
-            .indices(index)
-            .preference("_shards:$shard")
-            .source(
-                SearchSourceBuilder()
-                    .version(true)
-                    .sort("_seq_no", SortOrder.DESC)
-                    .seqNoAndPrimaryTerm(true)
-                    .query(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery())
-                    .size(1)
-            )
-        request.cancelAfterTimeInterval = TimeValue.timeValueMinutes(getCancelAfterTimeInterval())
-
-        val response: SearchResponse = client.suspendUntil { client.search(request, it) }
-
-        if (response.status() !== RestStatus.OK) {
-            throw IOException("Failed to get max seq no for shard: $shard")
-        }
-        if (response.hits.hits.isEmpty())
-            return -1L
-
-        return response.hits.hits[0].seqNo
-    }
-
-
     private fun getShardsCount(clusterService: ClusterService, index: String): Int {
         val allShards: List<ShardRouting> = clusterService!!.state().routingTable().allShards(index)
         return allShards.filter { it.primary() }.size
@@ -912,7 +882,6 @@ class DocumentLevelMonitorRunner : MonitorRunner() {
                     .size(monitorCtx.docLevelMonitorShardFetchSize)
             )
             .preference(Preference.PRIMARY_FIRST.type())
-            
         request.cancelAfterTimeInterval = TimeValue.timeValueMinutes(
             getCancelAfterTimeInterval()
         )
diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunnerExecutionContext.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunnerExecutionContext.kt
index db7a1d6bc..eefad1b6b 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunnerExecutionContext.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunnerExecutionContext.kt
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ data class MonitorRunnerExecutionContext(
 
     @Volatile var maxActionableAlertCount: Long = AlertingSettings.DEFAULT_MAX_ACTIONABLE_ALERT_COUNT,
     @Volatile var indexTimeout: TimeValue? = null,
-    @Volatile var cancelAfterTimeInterval: TimeValue? = null
+    @Volatile var cancelAfterTimeInterval: TimeValue? = null,
     @Volatile var findingsIndexBatchSize: Int = AlertingSettings.DEFAULT_FINDINGS_INDEXING_BATCH_SIZE,
     @Volatile var fetchOnlyQueryFieldNames: Boolean = true,
     @Volatile var percQueryMaxNumDocsInMemory: Int = AlertingSettings.DEFAULT_PERCOLATE_QUERY_NUM_DOCS_IN_MEMORY,
diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/TransportGetFindingsAction.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/TransportGetFindingsAction.kt
index d837dc57b..6835a9625 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/TransportGetFindingsAction.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/TransportGetFindingsAction.kt
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ class TransportGetFindingsSearchAction @Inject constructor(
                 )
         }
         searchSourceBuilder.query(queryBuilder).trackTotalHits(true)
-
         client.threadPool().threadContext.stashContext().use {
             scope.launch {
                 try {
diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/util/AlertingUtils.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/util/AlertingUtils.kt
index 056d7d4ea..355945939 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/util/AlertingUtils.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/util/AlertingUtils.kt
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ import org.opensearch.commons.alerting.model.action.Action
 import org.opensearch.commons.alerting.model.action.ActionExecutionPolicy
 import org.opensearch.commons.alerting.model.action.ActionExecutionScope
 import org.opensearch.commons.alerting.util.isBucketLevelMonitor
-import kotlin.math.max
 import org.opensearch.script.Script
+import kotlin.math.max
 
 private val logger = LogManager.getLogger("AlertingUtils")