Connectors (Kibana)
Connectors provide a central place to store connection information for services and integrations with Elastic or third party systems. Actions are instantiations of a connector that are linked to rules and run as background tasks on the Kibana server when rule conditions are met. Kibana provides the following types of connectors:
- Amazon Bedrock: Send a request to Amazon Bedrock.
- Cases: Add alerts to cases.
- CrowdStrike: Send a request to CrowdStrike.
- D3 Security: Send a request to D3 Security.
- Google Gemini: Send a request to Google Gemini.
- Email: Send email from your server.
- IBM Resilient: Create an incident in IBM Resilient.
- Index: Index data into Elasticsearch.
- Jira: Create an incident in Jira.
- Microsoft Teams: Send a message to a Microsoft Teams channel.
- Observability AI Assistant: Add AI-driven insights and custom actions to your workflow.
- OpenAI: Send a request to OpenAI.
- Opsgenie: Create or close an alert in Opsgenie.
- PagerDuty: Send an event in PagerDuty.
- SentinelOne: Send a request to SentinelOne.
- ServerLog: Add a message to a Kibana log.
- ServiceNow ITSM: Create an incident in ServiceNow.
- ServiceNow SecOps: Create a security incident in ServiceNow.
- ServiceNow ITOM: Create an event in ServiceNow.
- Slack: Send a message to a Slack channel or user.
- Swimlane: Create an incident in Swimlane.
- TheHive: Create cases and alerts in TheHive.
- Tines: Send events to a Tines Story.
- Torq: Trigger a Torq workflow.
- Webhook: Send a request to a web service.
- Webhook - Case Management: Send a request to a Case Management web service.
- xMatters: Send actionable alerts to on-call xMatters resources.
Some connector types are paid commercial features, while others are free. For a comparison of the Elastic subscription levels, go to the subscription page.
Rules use connectors to route actions to different destinations like log files, ticketing systems, and messaging tools. While each Kibana app can offer their own types of rules, they typically share connectors. Stack Management > Connectors offers a central place to view and manage all the connectors in the current space.
Access to connectors is granted based on your privileges to alerting-enabled features. For more information, go to Security.
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.
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.
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.
The Task Manager health API helps you understand the performance of all tasks in your environment. However, if connectors fail to run, they will report as successful to Task Manager. The failure stats will not accurately depict the performance of connectors.
For more information on connector successes and failures, refer to the Event log index.