diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
index 1b47d2017..a86a03438 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
@@ -475,7 +475,8 @@ object MonitorRunner : JobRunner, CoroutineScope, AbstractLifecycleComponent() {
                 } else if (action.getActionScope() == ActionExecutionScope.Type.PER_EXECUTION || monitorOrTriggerError != null) {
                     // If all categories of Alerts are empty, there is nothing to message on and we can skip the Action.
                     // If the error is not null, this is disregarded and the Action is executed anyway so the user can be notified.
-                    if (monitorOrTriggerError == null && dedupedAlerts.isEmpty() && newAlerts.isEmpty() && completedAlerts.isEmpty()) continue
+                    if (monitorOrTriggerError == null && dedupedAlerts.isEmpty() && newAlerts.isEmpty() && completedAlerts.isEmpty())
+                        continue
 
                     val actionCtx = triggerCtx.copy(
                         dedupedAlerts = dedupedAlerts,
diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/RestSearchMonitorAction.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/RestSearchMonitorAction.kt
index ea67a66f3..d19cd6560 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/RestSearchMonitorAction.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/RestSearchMonitorAction.kt
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import org.opensearch.alerting.action.SearchMonitorAction
 import org.opensearch.alerting.action.SearchMonitorRequest
 import org.opensearch.alerting.core.model.ScheduledJob
 import org.opensearch.alerting.core.model.ScheduledJob.Companion.SCHEDULED_JOBS_INDEX
+import org.opensearch.alerting.model.Monitor
 import org.opensearch.alerting.settings.AlertingSettings
 import org.opensearch.alerting.util.context
 import org.opensearch.client.node.NodeClient
@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ class RestSearchMonitorAction(
         searchSourceBuilder.fetchSource(context(request))
 
         val queryBuilder = QueryBuilders.boolQuery().must(searchSourceBuilder.query())
+        queryBuilder.filter(QueryBuilders.existsQuery(Monitor.MONITOR_TYPE))
 
         searchSourceBuilder.query(queryBuilder)
             .seqNoAndPrimaryTerm(true)
diff --git a/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/MonitorRestApiIT.kt b/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/MonitorRestApiIT.kt
index d9a947c3c..b1a1cd916 100644
--- a/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/MonitorRestApiIT.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/MonitorRestApiIT.kt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import org.apache.http.nio.entity.NStringEntity
 import org.opensearch.alerting.ALERTING_BASE_URI
 import org.opensearch.alerting.ANOMALY_DETECTOR_INDEX
 import org.opensearch.alerting.AlertingRestTestCase
+import org.opensearch.alerting.DESTINATION_BASE_URI
 import org.opensearch.alerting.LEGACY_OPENDISTRO_ALERTING_BASE_URI
 import org.opensearch.alerting.alerts.AlertIndices
 import org.opensearch.alerting.anomalyDetectorIndexMapping
@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ import org.opensearch.alerting.makeRequest
 import org.opensearch.alerting.model.Alert
 import org.opensearch.alerting.model.Monitor
 import org.opensearch.alerting.model.QueryLevelTrigger
+import org.opensearch.alerting.model.destination.Chime
+import org.opensearch.alerting.model.destination.Destination
 import org.opensearch.alerting.randomADMonitor
 import org.opensearch.alerting.randomAction
 import org.opensearch.alerting.randomAlert
@@ -51,7 +54,9 @@ import org.opensearch.alerting.randomAnomalyDetectorWithUser
 import org.opensearch.alerting.randomQueryLevelMonitor
 import org.opensearch.alerting.randomQueryLevelTrigger
 import org.opensearch.alerting.randomThrottle
+import org.opensearch.alerting.randomUser
 import org.opensearch.alerting.settings.AlertingSettings
+import org.opensearch.alerting.util.DestinationType
 import org.opensearch.client.ResponseException
 import org.opensearch.client.WarningFailureException
 import org.opensearch.common.bytes.BytesReference
@@ -66,6 +71,7 @@ import org.opensearch.search.builder.SearchSourceBuilder
 import org.opensearch.test.OpenSearchTestCase
 import org.opensearch.test.junit.annotations.TestLogging
 import org.opensearch.test.rest.OpenSearchRestTestCase
+import java.time.Instant
 import java.time.ZoneId
 import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit
 
@@ -888,4 +894,52 @@ class MonitorRestApiIT : AlertingRestTestCase() {
         val trigger = randomQueryLevelTrigger(actions = listOf(action))
         return randomQueryLevelMonitor(triggers = listOf(trigger))
     }
+
+    @Throws(Exception::class)
+    fun `test search monitors only`() {
+
+        // 1. create monitor
+        val monitor = randomQueryLevelMonitor()
+        val createResponse = client().makeRequest("POST", ALERTING_BASE_URI, emptyMap(), monitor.toHttpEntity())
+        assertEquals("Create monitor failed", RestStatus.CREATED, createResponse.restStatus())
+
+        // 2. create destination
+        val chime = Chime("http://abc.com")
+        val destination = Destination(
+            type = DestinationType.CHIME,
+            name = "test",
+            user = randomUser(),
+            lastUpdateTime = Instant.now(),
+            chime = chime,
+            slack = null,
+            customWebhook = null,
+            email = null
+        )
+        val response = client().makeRequest(
+            "POST",
+            DESTINATION_BASE_URI,
+            emptyMap(),
+            destination.toHttpEntity()
+        )
+        assertEquals("Unable to create a new destination", RestStatus.CREATED, response.restStatus())
+
+        // 3. search - must return only monitors.
+        val search = SearchSourceBuilder().query(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery()).toString()
+        val searchResponse = client().makeRequest(
+            "GET",
+            "$ALERTING_BASE_URI/_search",
+            emptyMap(),
+            NStringEntity(search, ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON)
+        )
+        assertEquals("Search monitor failed", RestStatus.OK, searchResponse.restStatus())
+        val xcp = createParser(XContentType.JSON.xContent(), searchResponse.entity.content)
+        val hits = xcp.map()["hits"]!! as Map<String, Map<String, Any>>
+        val numberDocsFound = hits["total"]?.get("value")
+        assertEquals("Destination objects are also returned by /_search.", 1, numberDocsFound)
+
+        val searchHits = hits["hits"] as List<Any>
+        val hit = searchHits[0] as Map<String, Any>
+        val monitorHit = hit["_source"] as Map<String, Any>
+        assertEquals("Type is not monitor", monitorHit[Monitor.TYPE_FIELD], "monitor")
+    }
 }