kibana/docs/user/alerting/action-types.asciidoc

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[[action-types]]
== Action and connector types

Actions are Kibana services or integrations with third-party systems that run as background tasks on the Kibana server when alert conditions are met. {kib} provides the following types of actions:

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a| <<email-action-type, Email>>

| Send email from your server.

a| <<index-action-type, Index>>

| Index data into Elasticsearch.

a| <<pagerduty-action-type, PagerDuty>>

| Send an event in PagerDuty.

a| <<server-log-action-type, ServerLog>>

| Add a message to a Kibana log.

a| <<slack-action-type, Slack>>

| Send a message to a Slack channel or user.

a| <<webhook-action-type, Webhook>>

| Send a request to a web service.
|===

[NOTE]
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Some action types are paid commercial features, while others are free. 
For a comparison of the Elastic subscription levels, 
see https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions[the subscription page]. 
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