Alerting and action settings in Kibana

Alerting and actions are enabled by default in Kibana, but require you to configure the following:

1. Set up Kibana to work with Elastic Stack security features.
2. Set up TLS encryption between Kibana and Elasticsearch.
3. 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.

xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey

Admonition

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.

Kibana offers a CLI tool to help generate this encryption key.

If not set, Kibana will generate a random key on startup, but all alerting and action functions will be blocked. Generated keys are not allowed for alerting and actions because when a new key is generated on restart, existing encrypted data becomes inaccessible. For the same reason, alerting and actions in high-availability deployments of Kibana will behave unexpectedly if the key isn’t the same on all instances of Kibana.

Although the key can be specified in clear text in kibana.yml, it’s recommended to store this key securely in the Kibana Keystore. Be sure to back up the encryption key value somewhere safe, as your alerting rules and actions will cease to function due to decryption failures should you lose it. If you want to rotate the encryption key, be sure to follow the instructions on encryption key rotation.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.allowedHosts

Admonition

A list of hostnames that Kibana is allowed to connect to when built-in actions are triggered. It defaults to ["*"], allowing any host, but keep in mind the potential for SSRF attacks when hosts are not explicitly added to the allowed hosts. An empty list [] can be used to block built-in actions from making any external connections.

Note that hosts associated with built-in actions, such as Slack and PagerDuty, are not automatically added to allowed hosts. If you are not using the default ["*"] setting, you must ensure that the corresponding endpoints are added to the allowed hosts as well.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.customHostSettings

Admonition

A list of custom host settings to override existing global settings.

Each entry in the list must have a url property, to associate a connection type (mail or https), hostname and port with the remaining options in the entry.

The settings in xpack.actions.customHostSettings can be used to override the global option xpack.actions.ssl.verificationMode and provide customized TLS settings on a per-server basis. Set xpack.actions.ssl.verificationMode to the value to be used by default for all servers, then add an entry in xpack.actions.customHostSettings for every server that requires customized settings.

Data type: string
Default: an empty list

In the following example, two custom host settings are defined. The first provides a custom host setting for mail server mail.example.com using port 465 that supplies server certificate authentication data from both a file and inline, and requires TLS for the connection. The second provides a custom host setting for https server webhook.example.com which turns off server certificate authentication, that will allow Kibana to connect to the server if it’s using a self-signed certificate. The individual properties that can be used in the settings are documented below.

xpack.actions.customHostSettings:
  - url: smtp://mail.example.com:465
    ssl:
      verificationMode: 'full'
      certificateAuthoritiesFiles: [ 'one.crt' ]
      certificateAuthoritiesData: |
          -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
          MIIDTD...
          CwUAMD...
          ... multiple lines of certificate data ...
          -----END CERTIFICATE-----
    smtp:
      requireTLS: true
  - url: https://webhook.example.com
    ssl:
      verificationMode: 'none'

xpack.actions.customHostSettings[n].url

Admonition

A URL associated with this custom host setting. Should be in the form of protocol://hostname:port, where protocol is https or smtp. If the port is not provided, 443 is used for https and 25 is used for smtp. The smtp URLs are used for the Email actions that use this server, and the https URLs are used for actions which use https to connect to services.

Entries with https URLs can use the ssl options, and entries with smtp URLs can use both the ssl and smtp options.

No other URL values should be part of this URL, including paths, query strings, and authentication information. When an http or smtp request is made as part of running an action, only the protocol, hostname, and port of the URL for that request are used to look up these configuration values.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.customHostSettings[n].smtp.ignoreTLS

Admonition

A boolean value indicating that TLS must not be used for this connection. The options smtp.ignoreTLS and smtp.requireTLS can not both be set to true.

Data type: bool
Default: false

xpack.actions.customHostSettings[n].smtp.requireTLS

Admonition

A boolean value indicating that TLS must be used for this connection. The options smtp.ignoreTLS and smtp.requireTLS can not both be set to true.

Data type: bool
Default: false

xpack.actions.customHostSettings[n].ssl.verificationMode

Admonition

Controls the verification of the server certificate that Kibana receives when making an outbound SSL/TLS connection to the host server. Valid values are full, certificate, and none. Use full to perform hostname verification, certificate to skip hostname verification, and none to skip verification. Default: full. Equivalent Kibana setting. Overrides the general xpack.actions.ssl.verificationMode configuration for requests made for this hostname/port.

Data type: enum

Options:

• full
• certificate
• none

Default: full

xpack.actions.customHostSettings[n].ssl.certificateAuthoritiesFiles

Admonition

A file name or list of file names of PEM-encoded certificate files to use to validate the server.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.customHostSettings[n].ssl.certificateAuthoritiesData

Admonition

The contents of one or more PEM-encoded certificate files in multiline format. This configuration can be used for environments where the files cannot be made available.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.email.domain_allowlist

Admonition

A list of allowed email domains which can be used with the email connector. When this setting is not used, all email domains are allowed. When this setting is used, if any email is attempted to be sent that (a) includes an addressee with an email domain that is not in the allowlist, or (b) includes a from address domain that is not in the allowlist, it will fail with a message indicating the email is not allowed.

xpack.actions.enableFooterInEmail

Admonition

A boolean value indicating that a footer with a relevant link should be added to emails sent as alerting actions.

Data type: bool
Default: true

xpack.actions.enabledActionTypes

Admonition

A list of action types that are enabled. It defaults to ["*"], enabling all types. The names for built-in Kibana action types are prefixed with a . and include: .email, .index, .jira, .opsgenie, .pagerduty, .resilient, .server-log, .servicenow, .servicenow-itom, .servicenow-sir, .slack, .swimlane, .teams, .tines, .torq, .xmatters, .gen-ai, .bedrock, .gemini, .d3security, and .webhook. An empty list [] will disable all action types.

Disabled action types will not appear as an option when creating new connectors, but existing connectors and actions of that type will remain in Kibana and will not function.

xpack.actions.microsoftExchangeUrl

Admonition

The URL for the Microsoft Azure Active Directory endpoint to use for MS Exchange email authentication.

Data type: string
Default: https://login.microsoftonline.com

xpack.actions.microsoftGraphApiUrl

Admonition

The URL for the Microsoft Graph API endpoint to use for MS Exchange email authentication.

Data type: string
Default: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0

xpack.actions.microsoftGraphApiScope

Admonition

The URL for the Microsoft Graph API scope endpoint to use for MS Exchange email authentication.

Data type: string
Default: https://graph.microsoft.com/.default

xpack.actions.proxyUrl

Admonition

Specifies the proxy URL to use, if using a proxy for actions. By default, no proxy is used.

Proxies may be used to proxy http or https requests through a proxy using the http or https protocol. Kibana only uses proxies in "CONNECT" mode (sometimes referred to as "tunneling" TCP mode, compared to HTTP mode). That is, Kibana will always make requests through a proxy using the HTTP CONNECT method.

If your proxy is using the https protocol (vs the http protocol), the setting xpack.actions.ssl.proxyVerificationMode: none will likely be needed, unless your proxy’s certificates are signed using a publicly available certificate authority.

There is currently no support for using basic authentication with a proxy (authentication for the proxy itself, not the URL being requested through the proxy).

Data type: string

To help diagnose problems using a proxy, you can use the curl command with options to use your proxy, and log debug information, with the following command, replacing the proxy and target URLs as appropriate. This will force the request to be made to the proxy in tunneling mode, and display some of the interaction between the client and the proxy.

curl --verbose --proxytunnel --proxy http://localhost:8080 http://example.com

xpack.actions.proxyBypassHosts

Admonition

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 xpack.actions.proxyBypassHosts and xpack.actions.proxyOnlyHosts cannot be used at the same time.

Data type: string

For example:

xpack.actions.proxyBypassHosts: [ "events.pagerduty.com" ]

If applicable, include the subdomain in the hostname

xpack.actions.proxyOnlyHosts

Admonition

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 xpack.actions.proxyBypassHosts and xpack.actions.proxyOnlyHosts cannot be used at the same time.

Data type: string

For example:

xpack.actions.proxyOnlyHosts: [ "events.pagerduty.com" ]

If applicable, include the subdomain in the hostname

xpack.actions.proxyHeaders

Admonition

Specifies HTTP headers for the proxy, if using a proxy for actions.

Data type: string
Default: {}

xpack.actions.ssl.proxyVerificationMode

Admonition

Controls the verification for the proxy server certificate that Kibana receives when making an outbound SSL/TLS connection to the proxy server.

Use full to perform hostname verification, certificate to skip hostname verification, and none to skip verification.

Equivalent Kibana setting

Data type: enum

Options:

• full
• certificate
• none

Default: full

xpack.actions.ssl.verificationMode

Admonition

Controls the verification for the server certificate that Elastic Maps Server receives when making an outbound SSL/TLS connection for actions. Valid values are full, certificate, and none. Use full to perform hostname verification, certificate to skip hostname verification, and none to skip verification.

Equivalent Kibana setting

This setting can be overridden for specific URLs by using the setting xpack.actions.customHostSettings[n].ssl.verificationMode (described above) to a different value.

Data type: enum

Options:

• full
• certificate
• none

Default: full

xpack.actions.maxResponseContentLength

Admonition

Specifies the max number of bytes of the http response for requests to external resources.

Data type: int
Default: 1000000 (1MB)

xpack.actions.responseTimeout

Admonition

Specifies the time allowed for requests to external resources. Requests that take longer are canceled. The time is formatted as a number and a time unit (ms, s, m, h, d, w, M, or Y). For example, 20m, 24h, 7d, 1w. Default: 60s.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.run.maxAttempts

Admonition

Specifies the maximum number of times an action can be attempted to run.

Data type: int

Options:

• minimum 1 and maximum 10

xpack.actions.run.connectorTypeOverrides

Admonition

Overrides the configs under xpack.actions.run for the connector type with the given ID. List the connector type identifier and its settings in an array of objects.

Data type: string

For example:

xpack.actions.run:
    maxAttempts: 1
    connectorTypeOverrides:
        - id: '.server-log'
          maxAttempts: 5

xpack.actions.queued.max

Admonition

Specifies the maximum number of actions that can be queued.

Data type: int
Default: 1000000

These settings vary depending on which type of preconfigured connector you’re adding.

For example:

xpack.actions.preconfigured:
  my-server-log:
    name: preconfigured-server-log-connector-type
    actionTypeId: .server-log

For more examples, go to Preconfigured connectors.

xpack.actions.preconfiguredAlertHistoryEsIndex

Admonition

Enables a preconfigured alert history Elasticsearch Index connector.

Data type: bool
Default: false

xpack.actions.preconfigured

Admonition

Specifies configuration details that are specific to the type of preconfigured connector.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.actionTypeId

Admonition

The type of preconfigured connector.

Options:

• .email
• .index
• .opsgenie
• .server-log
• .resilient
• .slack
• .webhook

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config

Admonition

The configuration details, which are specific to the type of preconfigured connector.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.apiProvider

Admonition

For a OpenAI connector, specifies the OpenAI API provider.

Data type: enum

Options:

• OpenAI
• Azure OpenAI

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.apiUrl

Admonition

A configuration URL that varies by connector:

• For an Amazon Bedrock connector, specifies the Amazon Bedrock request URL.
• For an Google Gemini connector, specifies the Google Gemini request URL.
• For a OpenAI connector, specifies the OpenAI request URL.
• For a IBM Resilient connector, specifies the IBM Resilient instance URL.
• For a Jira connector, specifies the Jira instance URL.
• For an Opsgenie connector, specifies the Opsgenie URL. For example, https://api.opsgenie.com or https://api.eu.opsgenie.com.
• For a PagerDuty connector, specifies the PagerDuty event URL. Defaults to https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue.
• For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector specifies the ServiceNow instance URL.
• For a Swimlane connector, specifies the Swimlane instance URL.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.appId

Admonition

An application ID that varies by connector:

• For a Swimlane connector, specifies a Swimlane application identifier.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.clientId

Admonition

A client identifier that varies by connector:

• For an email connector, specifies a GUID format value that corresponds to the client ID, which is a part of OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication.
• For a ServiceNow ITOM, ServiceNow ITSM, or ServiceNow SecOps connector specifies the client identifier assigned to the OAuth application.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.configUrl

Admonition

For an xMatters connector with basic authentication, specifies the request URL for the Elastic Alerts trigger in xMatters.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.createCommentJson

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a stringified JSON payload with Mustache variables that is sent to the create comment URL to create a case comment. The required variable is case.description.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.createCommentMethod

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies the REST API HTTP request method to create a case comment in the third-party system.

Data type: string

Options:

• post
• put
• patch

Default: put

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.createCommentUrl

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a REST API URL string to create a case comment by ID in the third-party system.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.createIncidentJson

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a stringified JSON payload with Mustache variables that is sent to the create case URL to create a case. Required variables are case.title and case.description.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.createIncidentMethod

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies the REST API HTTP request method to create a case in the third-party system

Data type: string

Options:

• post
• put
• patch

Default: post

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.createIncidentUrl

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a REST API URL string to create a case in the third-party system.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.createIncidentResponseKey

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a string from the response body of the create case method that corresponds to the external service identifier.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.defaultModel

Admonition

The default model to use for requests, which varies by connector:

• For an Amazon Bedrock connector, current support is for the Anthropic Claude models. Defaults to anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0.
• For a Google Gemini connector, current support is for the Gemini models. Defaults to gemini-1.5-pro-002.
• For a OpenAI connector, it is optional and applicable only when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.apiProvider is OpenAI.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.executionTimeField

Admonition

For an index connector, a field that indicates when the document was indexed.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.from

Admonition

For an email connector, specifies the from address for all emails sent by the connector. It must be specified in user@host-name format.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.getIncidentResponseExternalTitleKey

Admonition

• "For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a string from the response body of the get case method that corresponds to the external service title."

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.getIncidentUrl

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a REST API URL string with an external service ID Mustache variable to get the case from the third-party system.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.hasAuth

Admonition

For an email, webhook, or Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies whether a user and password are required inside the secrets configuration.

Data type: bool
Default: true

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.headers

Admonition

For a webhook or Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a set of key-value pairs sent as headers with the request.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.host

Admonition

For an email connector, specifies the host name of the service provider.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.index

Admonition

For an index connector, specifies the Elasticsearch index.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.isOAuth

Admonition

For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector, specifies whether to use basic or OAuth authentication.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.jwtKeyId

Admonition

For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector, specifies the key ID assigned to the JWT verifier map of your OAuth application. It is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.isOAuth is true.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.mappings

Admonition

For a Swimlane connector, specifies field mappings.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.mappings.alertIdConfig

Admonition

For a Swimlane connector, field mapping for the alert identifier. You must provide fieldtype, id, key, and name values.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.mappings.caseIdConfig

Admonition

For a Swimlane connector, field mapping for the case identifier. You must provide fieldtype, id, key, and name values.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.mappings.caseNameConfig

Admonition

For a Swimlane connector, field mapping for the case name. You must provide fieldtype, id, key, and name values.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.mappings.commentsConfig

Admonition

For a Swimlane connector, field mapping for the case comments. You must provide fieldtype, id, key, and name values.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.mappings.descriptionConfig

Admonition

For a Swimlane connector, field mapping for the case description. You must provide fieldtype, id, key, and name values.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.mappings.ruleNameConfig

Admonition

For a Swimlane connector, field mapping for the rule name. You must provide fieldtype, id, key, and name values.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.mappings.severityConfig

Admonition

For a Swimlane connector, specifies a field mapping for the severity. You must provide fieldtype, id, key, and name values.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.method

Admonition

For a webhook connector, specifies the HTTP request method, either post or put. Defaults to post.

Data type: enum

Options:

• post
• put

Default: post

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.orgId

Admonition

For an IBM Resilient connector, specifies the IBM Resilient organization identifier.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.port

Admonition

For an email connector, specifies the port to connect to on the service provider.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.projectKey

Admonition

For a Jira connector, specifies the Jira project key.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.secure

Admonition

For an email connector, specifies whether the connection will use TLS when connecting to the service provider. If not true, the connection will initially connect over TCP then attempt to switch to TLS via the SMTP STARTTLS command.

Data type: bool

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.service

Admonition

For an email connector, specifies the name of the email service. For example, elastic_cloud, exchange_server, gmail, other, outlook365, or ses.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.tenantId

Admonition

For an email connector, specifies a GUID format value that corresponds to a tenant ID, which is a part of OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.updateIncidentJson

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a stringified JSON payload with Mustache variables that is sent to the update case URL to update a case. Required variables are case.title and case.description.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.updateIncidentMethod

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies the REST API HTTP request method to update the case in the third-party system.

Data type: enum

Options:

• post
• put
• patch

Default: put

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.updateIncidentUrl

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies the REST API URL to update the case by ID in the third-party system.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.url

Admonition

A configuration URL that varies by connector:

• For a D3 Security connector, specifies the D3 Security API request URL.
• For a Tines connector, specifies the Tines tenant URL.
• For a webhook connector, specifies the web service request URL.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.userIdentifierValue

Admonition

For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector, specifies the user identifier. It is required when required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.isOAuth is true.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.usesBasic

Admonition

For an xMatters connector, specifies whether it uses HTTP basic authentication.

Data type: bool
Default: true

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.usesTableApi

Admonition

For a ServiceNow ITSM or ServiceNow SecOps connector, specifies whether the connector uses the Table API or the Import Set API. If set to false, the Elastic application should be installed in ServiceNow.

Data type: bool

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.viewIncidentUrl

Admonition

For a Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a URL string with either the external service ID or external service title Mustache variable to view a case in the external system.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.webhookIntegrationUrl

Admonition

For a Torq connector, specifies the endpoint URL of the Elastic Security integration in Torq.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.name

Admonition

The name of the preconfigured connector.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets

Admonition

Sensitive configuration details, such as username, password, and keys, which are specific to the connector type.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.accessKey

Admonition

For an Amazon Bedrock connector, specifies the AWS access key for authentication.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.apikey

Admonition

An API key secret that varies by connector.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.credentialsJson

Admonition

For an Google Gemini connector, specifies the GCP service account credentials JSON file for authentication.

• For a OpenAI connector, specifies the OpenAI or Azure OpenAI API key for authentication.
• For an Opsgenie connector, specifies the Opsgenie API authentication key for HTTP basic authentication.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.apiKeyId

Admonition

For an IBM Resilient connector, specifies the authentication key ID for HTTP basic authentication.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.apiKeySecret

Admonition

For an IBM Resilient connector, specifies the authentication key secret for HTTP basic authentication.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.apiToken

Admonition

For a Jira or Swimlane connector, specifies the API authentication token for HTTP basic authentication.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.clientSecret

Admonition

A client secret that varies by connector:

• For an email connector, specifies the client secret that you generated for your app in the app registration portal. It is required when the email service is exchange_server, which uses OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication.
• For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector, specifies the client secret assigned to the OAuth application. It is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.isOAuth is true.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.email

Admonition

An email address that varies by connector:

• For a Jira connector, specifies the account email for HTTP basic authentication.
• For a Tines connector, specifies the email used to sign in to Tines.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.password

Admonition

A password secret that varies by connector:

• For an email, webhook, or Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a password that is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.hasAuth is true.
• For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector, specifies a password that is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.isOAuth is false.
• For an xMatters connector, specifies a password that is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.usesBasic is true.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.privateKey

Admonition

For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector, specifies the RSA private key. It is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.isOAuth is true.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.privateKeyPassword

Admonition

For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector, specifies the password for the RSA private key.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.routingKey

Admonition

For a PagerDuty connector, specifies the 32 character PagerDuty Integration Key for an integration on a service, also referred to as the routing key.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.secret

Admonition

For an Amazon Bedrock connector, specifies the AWS secret for authentication.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.secretsUrl

Admonition

For an xMatters connector with URL authentication, specifies the request URL for the Elastic Alerts trigger in xMatters with the API key included in the URL. It is used only when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.usesBasic is false.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.token

Admonition

A token secret that varies by connector:

• For a D3 Security conector, specifies the D3 Security token.
• For a Slack connector, specifies the Slack bot user OAuth token.
• For a Tines connector, specifies the Tines API token.
• For a Torq connector, specifies the secret of the webhook authentication header.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.user

Admonition

A user name secret that varies by connector:

• For an email, webhook, or Webhook - Case Management connector, specifies a user name that is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.hasAuth is true.
• For an xMatters connector, specifies a user name that is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.usesBasic is true.

Data type: string

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.webhookUrl

Admonition

A URL that varies by connector:

• For a Microsoft Teams, specifies the URL of the incoming webhook.
• For a Slack connector, specifies the Slack webhook URL.

xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.secrets.username

Admonition

For a ServiceNow ITSM, ServiceNow SecOps, or ServiceNow ITOM connector, specifies a user name that is required when xpack.actions.preconfigured.<connector-id>.config.isOAuth is false.

Data type: string

xpack.alerting.cancelAlertsOnRuleTimeout

Admonition

Specifies whether to skip writing alerts and scheduling actions if rule processing was cancelled due to a timeout. This setting can be overridden by individual rule types.

Data type: bool
Default: true

xpack.alerting.rules.maxScheduledPerMinute

Admonition

Specifies the maximum number of rules to run per minute.

Data type: int
Default: 10000

xpack.alerting.rules.minimumScheduleInterval.value

Admonition

Specifies the minimum schedule interval for rules. This minimum is applied to all rules created or updated after you set this value. The time is formatted as a number and a time unit (s, m, h, or d). For example, 20m, 24h, 7d. This duration cannot exceed 1d.

Data type: string
Default: 1m

xpack.alerting.rules.minimumScheduleInterval.enforce

Admonition

Specifies the behavior when a new or changed rule has a schedule interval less than the value defined in xpack.alerting.rules.minimumScheduleInterval.value. If false, rules with schedules less than the interval will be created but warnings will be logged. If true, rules with schedules less than the interval cannot be created.

Data type: bool
Default: false

xpack.alerting.rules.run.actions.max

Admonition

Specifies the maximum number of actions that a rule can generate each time detection checks run.

Data type: int

xpack.alerting.rules.run.alerts.max

Admonition

Specifies the maximum number of alerts that a rule can generate each time detection checks run.

xpack.alerting.rules.run.timeout

Admonition

Specifies the default timeout for tasks associated with all types of rules. The time is formatted as a number and a time unit (ms, s, m, h, d, w, M, or Y). For example, 20m, 24h, 7d, 1w. Default: 5m.

Data type: string

xpack.alerting.rules.run.ruleTypeOverrides

Admonition

Overrides the configs under xpack.alerting.rules.run for the rule type with the given ID. List the rule identifier and its settings in an array of objects.

Data type: string

For example:

xpack.alerting.rules.run:
    timeout: '5m'
    ruleTypeOverrides:
        - id: '.index-threshold'
          timeout: '15m'

xpack.alerting.rules.run.actions.connectorTypeOverrides

Admonition

Overrides the configs under xpack.alerting.rules.run.actions for the connector type with the given ID. List the connector type identifier and its settings in an array of objects.

Data type: string

For example:

xpack.alerting.rules.run:
    actions:
        max: 10
        connectorTypeOverrides:
            - id: '.server-log'
              max: 5