Get Alerting framework health APIedit

Retrieve the health status of the Alerting framework.

Requestedit

GET <kibana host>:<port>/api/alerting/_health

GET <kibana host>:<port>/s/<space_id>/api/alerting/_health

Path parametersedit

space_id
(Optional, string) An identifier for the space. If space_id is not provided in the URL, the default space is used.

Response codeedit

200
Indicates a successful call.

Exampleedit

Retrieve the health status of the Alerting framework:

$ curl -X GET api/alerting/_health

The API returns the following:

{
   "is_sufficiently_secure":true,
   "has_permanent_encryption_key":true,
   "alerting_framework_health":{
      "decryption_health":{
         "status":"ok",
         "timestamp":"2021-02-10T23:35:04.949Z"
      },
      "execution_health":{
         "status":"ok",
         "timestamp":"2021-02-10T23:35:04.949Z"
      },
      "read_health":{
         "status":"ok",
         "timestamp":"2021-02-10T23:35:04.949Z"
      }
   }
}

The health API response contains the following properties:

is_sufficiently_secure

Returns false if security is enabled, but TLS is not.

has_permanent_encryption_key

Return the state false if Encrypted Saved Object plugin has not a permanent encryption Key.

alerting_framework_health

This state property has three substates that identify the health of the alerting framework API: decryption_health, execution_health, and read_health.

alerting_framework_health consists of the following properties:

decryption_health

Returns the timestamp and status of the rule decryption: ok, warn or error .

execution_health

Returns the timestamp and status of the rule execution: ok, warn or error.

read_health

Returns the timestamp and status of the rule reading events: ok, warn or error.