diff --git a/src/test/clmctest/alerts/conftest.py b/src/test/clmctest/alerts/conftest.py
index 2e4575d0a16a2b27cfde35ffad0ebbc0059c0268..3d40a90fcc14f9f21edd9dcd2f4408f24f5ea1c7 100644
--- a/src/test/clmctest/alerts/conftest.py
+++ b/src/test/clmctest/alerts/conftest.py
@@ -31,9 +31,13 @@ from shutil import rmtree
 from signal import SIGKILL
 from json import load
 from pkg_resources import resource_filename
+from requests import delete, get
 from clmctest.alerts.alert_handler_server import LOG_TEST_FOLDER_PATH
 
 
+KAPACITOR_PORT = 9092
+
+
 @fixture(scope="module")
 def rspec_config():
     """
@@ -51,11 +55,23 @@ def rspec_config():
 
 
 @fixture(autouse=True, scope="module")
-def set_up_tear_down_fixture():
+def set_up_tear_down_fixture(rspec_config):
     """
     Set up/tear down fixture for the alerts integration test.
     """
 
+    global KAPACITOR_PORT
+
+    kapacitor_host = None
+    for host in rspec_config:
+        if host["name"] == "clmc-service":
+            kapacitor_host = host["ip_address"]
+            break
+
+    assert kapacitor_host is not None
+
+    kapacitor_url = "http://{0}:{1}".format(kapacitor_host, KAPACITOR_PORT)
+
     if exists(LOG_TEST_FOLDER_PATH):
         rmtree(LOG_TEST_FOLDER_PATH)  # clean out the log directory
     makedirs(LOG_TEST_FOLDER_PATH)  # create the log directory
@@ -73,3 +89,21 @@ def set_up_tear_down_fixture():
     kill(process_id, SIGKILL)
     if exists(LOG_TEST_FOLDER_PATH):
         rmtree(LOG_TEST_FOLDER_PATH)
+
+    print("Deleting Kapacitor tasks, topics and handlers that were created for this test...")
+    test_sfc_instance_scope = "CLMCMetrics.MS_I1"
+    # get all tasks from kapacitor (that were created in this test) and delete them
+    kapacitor_tasks = get("{0}/kapacitor/v1/tasks".format(kapacitor_url)).json()["tasks"]
+    kapacitor_task_links = [task["link"]["href"] for task in kapacitor_tasks if task["id"].startswith(test_sfc_instance_scope)]
+    for task_link in kapacitor_task_links:
+        delete("{0}{1}".format(kapacitor_url, task_link))
+
+    # get all topics and handlers from kapacitor (that were created in this test) and delete them
+    kapacitor_topics = get("{0}/kapacitor/v1/alerts/topics".format(kapacitor_url)).json()["topics"]
+    for topic in kapacitor_topics:
+        if topic["id"].startswith(test_sfc_instance_scope):
+            topic_handlers = get("{0}{1}".format(kapacitor_url, topic["handlers-link"]["href"])).json()["handlers"]
+            for handler in topic_handlers:
+                delete("{0}{1}".format(kapacitor_url, handler["link"]["href"]))
+
+            delete("{0}{1}".format(kapacitor_url, topic["link"]["href"]))