Alerting and action settings in Kibanaedit
Alerts 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
.
You can configure the following settings in the kibana.yml
file.
General settingsedit
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A string of 32 or more characters used to encrypt sensitive properties on alerts 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 settingsedit
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 |
Alert settingsedit
You do not need to configure any additional settings to use alerting in Kibana.