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== Connectors and actions

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>>

| Send email from your server.

a| <<resilient-action-type, IBM Resilient>>

| Create an incident in IBM Resilient.

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

| Index data into Elasticsearch.

a| <<jira-action-type, Jira>>

| Create an incident in Jira.

a| <<teams-action-type, Microsoft Teams>>

| Send a message to a Microsoft Teams channel.

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

| Send an event in PagerDuty.

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

| Add a message to a Kibana log.

a| <<servicenow-action-type, ServiceNow>>

| Create an incident in ServiceNow.

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 connector 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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=== Preconfigured connectors

For out-of-the-box and standardized connectors, you can <<preconfigured-connector-example, preconfigure connectors>>
before {kib} starts.

include::action-types/email.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/resilient.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/index.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/jira.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/teams.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/pagerduty.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/server-log.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/servicenow.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/slack.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/webhook.asciidoc[]
include::action-types/pre-configured-connectors.asciidoc[]