diff --git a/doc/Extensions/Alerting.md b/doc/Extensions/Alerting.md
index 1bfba162fd..f27fce6c1c 100644
--- a/doc/Extensions/Alerting.md
+++ b/doc/Extensions/Alerting.md
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ Transports are located within `$config['install_dir']/includes/alerts/transports
 Contacts will be gathered automatically and passed to the configured transports.  
 The contacts will always include the `SysContact` defined in the Device's SNMP configuration and also every LibreNMS-User that has at least `read`-permissions on the entity that is to be alerted.  
 At the moment LibreNMS only supports Port or Device permissions.  
+You can exclude the `SysContact` by setting:
+```php
+$config['alert']['syscontact'] = false;
+```
 To include users that have `Global-Read` or `Administrator` permissions it is required to add these additions to the `config.php` respectively:
 ```php
 $config['alert']['globals'] = true; //Include Global-Read into alert-contacts
diff --git a/includes/alerts.inc.php b/includes/alerts.inc.php
index 8392daa191..ea3bf8d499 100644
--- a/includes/alerts.inc.php
+++ b/includes/alerts.inc.php
@@ -299,12 +299,14 @@ function GetContacts($results) {
 			}
 		}
 		if( is_numeric($result["device_id"]) ) {
-			if( dbFetchCell("SELECT attrib_value FROM devices_attribs WHERE attrib_type = 'override_sysContact_bool' AND device_id = ?",array($result["device_id"])) === "1" ) {
-				$tmpa = dbFetchCell("SELECT attrib_value FROM devices_attribs WHERE attrib_type = 'override_sysContact_string' AND device_id = ?",array($result["device_id"]));
-			} else {
-				$tmpa = dbFetchCell("SELECT sysContact FROM devices WHERE device_id = ?",array($result["device_id"]));
+			if( $config['alert']['syscontact'] == true ) {
+				if( dbFetchCell("SELECT attrib_value FROM devices_attribs WHERE attrib_type = 'override_sysContact_bool' AND device_id = ?",array($result["device_id"])) === "1" ) {
+					$tmpa = dbFetchCell("SELECT attrib_value FROM devices_attribs WHERE attrib_type = 'override_sysContact_string' AND device_id = ?",array($result["device_id"]));
+				} else {
+					$tmpa = dbFetchCell("SELECT sysContact FROM devices WHERE device_id = ?",array($result["device_id"]));
+				}
+				$contacts[$tmpa] = "NOC";
 			}
-			$contacts[$tmpa] = "NOC";
 			$tmpa = dbFetchRows("SELECT user_id FROM devices_perms WHERE access_level >= 0 AND device_id = ?", array($result["device_id"]));
 			foreach( $tmpa as $tmp ) {
 				$uids[$tmp['user_id']] = $tmp['user_id'];
diff --git a/includes/defaults.inc.php b/includes/defaults.inc.php
index eeebfd7d1b..9710868d7c 100644
--- a/includes/defaults.inc.php
+++ b/includes/defaults.inc.php
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ $config['alert'] = array(
 		'mail'  => false,                   //  E-Mail alerting
 		'irc'   => false,                   //  IRC Alerting
 	),
+	'syscontact' => true,                 //Issue to SysContact (or it's override)
 	'globals' => false,                   //Issue to global-read users
 	'admins' => false,                    //Issue to administrators
 	'default_only' => false,              //Only issue to default