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Index action

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Index action

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The index action type will index a document into Elasticsearch. See also the create index API.

Connector configuration

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Index connectors have the following configuration properties:

Name: The name of the connector. The name is used to identify a connector in the management UI connector listing, or in the connector list when configuring an action.
Index: The Elasticsearch index to be written to.
Refresh: Setting for the refresh policy for the write request.
Execution time field: This field will be automatically set to the time the alert condition was detected.

Preconfigured action type

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 my-index:
   name: action-type-index
   actionTypeId: .index
   config:
     index: .kibana
     refresh: true
     executionTimeField: somedate

config defines the action type specific to the configuration and contains the following properties:

`index`	A string that corresponds to Index.
`refresh`	A boolean that corresponds to Refresh.
`executionTimeField`	A string that corresponds to Execution time field.

Action configuration

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Index actions have the following properties:

Document: The document to index in JSON format.

Example of the index document for Index Threshold alert:

{
    "alert_id": "{{alertId}}",
    "alert_name": "{{alertName}}",
    "alert_instance_id": "{{alertInstanceId}}",
    "context_message": "{{context.message}}"
}

Example of create test index using the API.

PUT test
{
    "settings" : {
        "number_of_shards" : 1
    },
    "mappings" : {
        "properties" : {
            "alert_id" : { "type" : "text" },
            "alert_name" : { "type" : "text" },
            "alert_instance_id" : { "type" : "text" },
            "context_message": { "type" : "text" }
        }
    }
}

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