Alerting and action settings in Kibana
editAlerting and action settings in Kibana
editAlerts and actions are enabled by default in Kibana, but require you configure the following in order to use them:
- Set up Kibana to work with Elastic Stack security features.
- Set up TLS encryption between Kibana and Elasticsearch.
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If you are using an on-premises Elastic Stack deployment, specify a value for
xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey
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You can configure the following settings in the kibana.yml
file.
General settings
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A string of 32 or more characters used to encrypt sensitive properties on alerting rules and actions before they’re stored in Elasticsearch. Third party credentials — such as the username and password used to connect to an SMTP service — are an example of encrypted properties. |
Action settings
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Feature toggle that enables Actions in Kibana. If |
A list of hostnames that Kibana is allowed to connect to when built-in actions are triggered. It defaults to |
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A list of action types that are enabled. It defaults to |
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Enables a preconfigured alert history Elasticsearch Index connector. Defaults to |
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Specifies preconfigured connector IDs and configs. Defaults to {}. |
Specifies the proxy URL to use, if using a proxy for actions. By default, no proxy is used. |
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Specifies hostnames which should not use the proxy, if using a proxy for actions. The value is an array of hostnames as strings. By default, all hosts will use the proxy, but if an action’s hostname is in this list, the proxy will not be used. The settings |
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Specifies hostnames which should only use the proxy, if using a proxy for actions. The value is an array of hostnames as strings. By default, no hosts will use the proxy, but if an action’s hostname is in this list, the proxy will be used. The settings |
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Specifies HTTP headers for the proxy, if using a proxy for actions. Defaults to {}. |
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Specifies the max number of bytes of the http response for requests to external resources. Defaults to 1000000 (1MB). |
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Specifies the time allowed for requests to external resources. Requests that take longer are aborted. The time is formatted as: |
Alerting settings
editYou do not need to configure any additional settings to use alerting in Kibana.