# Alerts configure ELKB
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-configure-elkb/73452
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 1, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-configure-elkb/73452 "2017-02-01T03:00:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@bob-bza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bob-bza)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-configure-elkb/73452/1 "2017-02-01T03:00:41Z")
I was planning to configure alerts in elasticsearch or logstash can you please direct me to proper document or process so that i can test it and will apply on my ELKB.
Main purpose was in our logs if we get some keywords logs like ERROR, failed, dead,host not found... etc , we have some keywords like these . if we got any of these keywords in our logs we want to get and email alert so that we can go and check easily.
I have no idea what to do, so i reached you here.
if i anything unclear from my side please let me know i will provide somemore in depth explanation.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-configure-elkb/73452/2 "2017-02-01T05:33:28Z")
You can use conditionals to generate emails from Logstash on a per-event basis using the email output plugin. If you are looking for more complex functionality based on patterns across a set of data in Elastivsearch [this functionality is provided by X-Pack/Watcher](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/xpack-alerting.html).
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### Author:  [@bob-bza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bob-bza)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-configure-elkb/73452/3 "2017-02-07T21:05:56Z")
I was looking to configure alerts either on logstash instance or elasticsearch service in AWS.
so how can i configure alerts on elasticserach service in aws.
This link was telling something about stand alone elasticsearch/kibana install on instance. but i was looking for ElasticSearchservice in AWS.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/watcher-getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/watcher-getting-started.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-configure-elkb/73452/4 "2017-03-07T21:06:13Z")
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