kibana/docs/user/alerting/action-types.asciidoc
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[Alerting] Documentation for how to pre-configure connectors. (#63807)
* [Alerting] Documentation for how to pre-configure connectors.

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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]
==============================================
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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[[create-connectors]]
=== Connectors
You can create connectors for actions in <<managing-alerts-and-actions, Alerts and Actions>> or via the action API.
For out-of-the-box and standardized connectors, you can <<pre-configured-connectors, preconfigure connectors>>
before {kib} starts.
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[]
include::pre-configured-connectors.asciidoc[]