Manage connectors
Elastic Stack Serverless
Connectors serve as a central place to store connection information for both Elastic and third-party systems. They enable the linking of actions to rules, which execute as background tasks on the Kibana server when rule conditions are met. This allows rules to route actions to various destinations such as log files, ticketing systems, and messaging tools. Different Kibana apps may have their own rule types, but they typically share connectors. The Stack Management > Connectors provides a central location to view and manage all connectors in the current space.
This page is about Kibana connectors that integrate with services like generative AI model providers. If you’re looking for Search connectors that synchronize third-party data into Elasticsearch, refer to Connector clients.
Access to connectors is granted based on your privileges to alerting-enabled features. For more information, go to Security.
Elastic Stack
If you're using Elastic Stack, use the action configuration settings to customize connector networking configurations, such as proxies, certificates, or TLS settings. You can set configurations that apply to all your connectors or use xpack.actions.customHostSettings to set per-host configurations.
In Stack Management > Connectors, you can find a list of the connectors in the current space. You can use the search bar to find specific connectors by name and type. The Type dropdown also enables you to filter to a subset of connector types.
You can delete individual connectors using the trash icon. Alternatively, select multiple connectors and delete them in bulk using the Delete button.
You can delete a connector even if there are still actions referencing it. When this happens the action will fail to run and errors appear in the Kibana logs.
New connectors can be created with the Create connector button, which guides you to select the type of connector and configure its properties. For a full list of available connectors, see Available connectors.
Some connector types are paid commercial features, while others are free. For a comparison of the Elastic subscription levels, go to the subscription page.
After you create a connector, it is available for use any time you set up an action in the current space.
For out-of-the-box and standardized connectors, refer to preconfigured connectors.
You can also manage connectors as resources with the Elasticstack provider for Terraform. For more details, refer to the elasticstack_kibana_action_connector resource.
Preconfigured connectors and the Terraform resource are not available in Elastic Cloud Serverless projects.
To import and export connectors, use the Saved Objects Management UI.
If a connector is missing sensitive information after the import, a Fix button appears in Connectors.
You can query the Event log index to gather information on connector successes and failures.
If you're using Elastic Stack, then you can also use the Task Manager health API to monitor connector performance. However, if connectors fail to run, they will report as successful to Task Manager. The failure stats will not accurately depict connector failures.