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[role="xpack"]
[[action-types]]
== Action and connector types
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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>>
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| Send email from your server.
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a| <<index-action-type, Index>>
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| Index data into Elasticsearch.
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a| <<pagerduty-action-type, PagerDuty>>
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| Send an event in PagerDuty.
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a| <<server-log-action-type, ServerLog>>
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| Add a message to a Kibana log.
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a| <<slack-action-type, Slack>>
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| Send a message to a Slack channel or user.
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a| <<webhook-action-type, Webhook>>
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| Send a request to a web service.
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[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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include::action-types/email.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/index.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/pagerduty.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/server-log.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/slack.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/webhook.asciidoc[]