diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
index b1957e0ee..1b47d2017 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
@@ -385,6 +385,17 @@ object MonitorRunner : JobRunner, CoroutineScope, AbstractLifecycleComponent() {
                 val triggerResult = triggerService.runBucketLevelTrigger(monitor, trigger, triggerCtx)
                 triggerResults[trigger.id] = triggerResult.getCombinedTriggerRunResult(triggerResults[trigger.id])
 
+                /*
+                 * If an error was encountered when running the trigger, it means that something went wrong when parsing the input results
+                 * for the filtered buckets returned from the pipeline bucket selector injected into the input query.
+                 *
+                 * In this case, the returned aggregation result buckets are empty so the categorization of the Alerts that happens below
+                 * should be skipped/invalidated since comparing the current Alerts to an empty result will lead the execution to believe
+                 * that all Alerts have been COMPLETED. Not doing so would mean it would not be possible to propagate the error into the
+                 * existing Alerts in a way the user can easily view them since they will have all been moved to the history index.
+                 */
+                if (triggerResults[trigger.id]?.error != null) continue
+
                 // TODO: Should triggerResult's aggregationResultBucket be a list? If not, getCategorizedAlertsForBucketLevelMonitor can
                 //  be refactored to use a map instead
                 val categorizedAlerts = alertService.getCategorizedAlertsForBucketLevelMonitor(
@@ -418,9 +429,12 @@ object MonitorRunner : JobRunner, CoroutineScope, AbstractLifecycleComponent() {
             }
         } while (monitorResult.inputResults.afterKeysPresent())
 
-        // The completed Alerts are whatever are left in the currentAlerts
+        // The completed Alerts are whatever are left in the currentAlerts.
+        // However, this operation will only be done if there was no trigger error, since otherwise the nextAlerts were not collected
+        // in favor of just using the currentAlerts as-is.
         currentAlerts.forEach { (trigger, keysToAlertsMap) ->
-            nextAlerts[trigger.id]?.get(AlertCategory.COMPLETED)?.addAll(alertService.convertToCompletedAlerts(keysToAlertsMap))
+            if (triggerResults[trigger.id]?.error == null)
+                nextAlerts[trigger.id]?.get(AlertCategory.COMPLETED)?.addAll(alertService.convertToCompletedAlerts(keysToAlertsMap))
         }
 
         for (trigger in monitor.triggers) {
@@ -432,8 +446,12 @@ object MonitorRunner : JobRunner, CoroutineScope, AbstractLifecycleComponent() {
             // All trigger contexts and results should be available at this point since all triggers were evaluated in the main do-while loop
             val triggerCtx = triggerContexts[trigger.id]!!
             val triggerResult = triggerResults[trigger.id]!!
+            val monitorOrTriggerError = monitorResult.error ?: triggerResult.error
             for (action in trigger.actions) {
-                if (action.getActionScope() == ActionExecutionScope.Type.PER_ALERT) {
+                // If the monitor or triggerResult has an error, then default to PER_EXECUTION to communicate the error.
+                // Typically, given the actions taken by runBucketLevelTrigger, an exception during the operation could mean
+                // either there were incompatible trigger conditions or there was a parsing error on the results.
+                if (action.getActionScope() == ActionExecutionScope.Type.PER_ALERT && monitorOrTriggerError == null) {
                     val perAlertActionFrequency = action.actionExecutionPolicy.actionExecutionScope as PerAlertActionScope
                     for (alertCategory in perAlertActionFrequency.actionableAlerts) {
                         val alertsToExecuteActionsFor = nextAlerts[trigger.id]?.get(alertCategory) ?: mutableListOf()
@@ -441,7 +459,7 @@ object MonitorRunner : JobRunner, CoroutineScope, AbstractLifecycleComponent() {
                             if (isBucketLevelTriggerActionThrottled(action, alert)) continue
 
                             val actionCtx = getActionContextForAlertCategory(
-                                alertCategory, alert, triggerCtx, monitorResult.error ?: triggerResult.error
+                                alertCategory, alert, triggerCtx, monitorOrTriggerError
                             )
                             // AggregationResultBucket should not be null here
                             val alertBucketKeysHash = alert.aggregationResultBucket!!.getBucketKeysHash()
@@ -454,9 +472,10 @@ object MonitorRunner : JobRunner, CoroutineScope, AbstractLifecycleComponent() {
                             alertsToUpdate.add(alert)
                         }
                     }
-                } else if (action.getActionScope() == ActionExecutionScope.Type.PER_EXECUTION) {
-                    // If all categories of Alerts are empty, there is nothing to message on and we can skip the Action
-                    if (dedupedAlerts.isEmpty() && newAlerts.isEmpty() && completedAlerts.isEmpty()) continue
+                } 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
 
                     val actionCtx = triggerCtx.copy(
                         dedupedAlerts = dedupedAlerts,
@@ -465,8 +484,13 @@ object MonitorRunner : JobRunner, CoroutineScope, AbstractLifecycleComponent() {
                         error = monitorResult.error ?: triggerResult.error
                     )
                     val actionResult = runAction(action, actionCtx, dryrun)
+                    // If there was an error during trigger execution then the Alerts to be updated are the current Alerts since the state
+                    // was not changed. Otherwise, the Alerts to be updated are the sum of the deduped, new and completed Alerts.
+                    val alertsToIterate = if (monitorOrTriggerError == null) {
+                        (dedupedAlerts + newAlerts + completedAlerts)
+                    } else currentAlerts[trigger]?.map { it.value } ?: listOf()
                     // Save the Action run result for every Alert
-                    for (alert in (dedupedAlerts + newAlerts + completedAlerts)) {
+                    for (alert in alertsToIterate) {
                         val alertBucketKeysHash = alert.aggregationResultBucket!!.getBucketKeysHash()
                         if (!triggerResult.actionResultsMap.containsKey(alertBucketKeysHash)) {
                             triggerResult.actionResultsMap[alertBucketKeysHash] = mutableMapOf()
diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/TriggerService.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/TriggerService.kt
index bb92ba7ea..6fda9e107 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/TriggerService.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/TriggerService.kt
@@ -88,8 +88,7 @@ class TriggerService(val scriptService: ScriptService) {
             }
             BucketLevelTriggerRunResult(trigger.name, null, selectedBuckets)
         } catch (e: Exception) {
-            logger.info("Error running script for monitor ${monitor.id}, trigger: ${trigger.id}", e)
-            // TODO empty map here with error should be treated in the same way as QueryLevelTrigger with error running script
+            logger.info("Error running trigger [${trigger.id}] for monitor [${monitor.id}]", e)
             BucketLevelTriggerRunResult(trigger.name, e, emptyMap())
         }
     }