Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, querying incoming alarms received at an element management system (EMS), based on a response to the query, determining patterns of the incoming alarms, determining that the patterns of the incoming alarms match with a flapping condition, upon the determination of the flapping condition, generating a synthetic alarm including information as to the incoming alarms and the flapping condition, and forwarding the synthetic alarm to an operations support system (OSS). Other embodiments are disclosed.