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[role="xpack"]
[[action-types]]
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== Connectors and actions
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Connectors provide a central place to store connection information for services and integrations with third party systems. Actions are instantiations of a connector that are linked to rules and run as background tasks on the {kib} server when rule conditions are met. {kib} provides the following types of connectors:
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a| <<email-action-type, Email>>
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| Send email from your server.
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a| <<resilient-action-type, IBM Resilient>>
| Create an incident in IBM Resilient.
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a| <<index-action-type, Index>>
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| Index data into Elasticsearch.
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a| <<jira-action-type, Jira>>
| Create an incident in Jira.
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a| <<teams-action-type, Microsoft Teams>>
| Send a message to a Microsoft Teams channel.
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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| <<servicenow-action-type, ServiceNow>>
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| Create an incident in ServiceNow.
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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 connector types are paid commercial features, while others are free.
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For a comparison of the Elastic subscription levels,
see https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions[the subscription page].
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[[create-connectors]]
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=== Preconfigured connectors
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For out-of-the-box and standardized connectors, you can <<preconfigured-connector-example, preconfigure connectors>>
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before {kib} starts.
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include::action-types/email.asciidoc[]
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include::action-types/resilient.asciidoc[]
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include::action-types/index.asciidoc[]
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include::action-types/jira.asciidoc[]
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include::action-types/teams.asciidoc[]
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include::action-types/pagerduty.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/server-log.asciidoc[]
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include::action-types/servicenow.asciidoc[]
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include::action-types/slack.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/webhook.asciidoc[]
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include::action-types/pre-configured-connectors.asciidoc[]
