﻿---
title: Index connector and action
description: An index connector indexes a document into Elasticsearch. You can create connectors in Stack Management > Connectors or as needed when you're creating...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/kibana/pull/244843/reference/connectors-kibana/index-action-type
---

# Index connector and action
An index connector indexes a document into Elasticsearch.

## Create connectors in Kibana

You can create connectors in **Stack Management > Connectors** or as needed when you're creating a rule. For example:
![Index connector](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/kibana/pull/244843/reference/images/index-connector.png)


### Connector configuration

Index connectors must have a name and an Elasticsearch index.
You can optionally choose a field that indicates when the document was indexed.

## Test connectors

You can test connectors as you're creating or editing the connector in Kibana.
For example:
![Index params test](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/kibana/pull/244843/reference/images/index-params-test.png)

Index connector actions contain a document in JSON format. For example, if you have an index with the following properties:
```text
PUT test
{
    "settings" : {
        "number_of_shards" : 1
    },
    "mappings" : {
        "properties" : {
            "rule_id" : { "type" : "text" },
            "rule_name" : { "type" : "text" },
            "alert_id" : { "type" : "text" },
            "context_message": { "type" : "text" }
        }
    }
}
```

Your test document could contain the following properties and variables:
```text
{
    "rule_id": "{{rule.id}}",
    "rule_name": "{{rule.name}}",
    "alert_id": "{{alert.id}}",
    "context_message": "{{context.message}}"
}
```