# Alerts - Kibana vs Watcher - Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-kibana-vs-watcher-elasticsearch/280311>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [August 3, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-kibana-vs-watcher-elasticsearch/280311 "2021-08-03T12:48:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![GavinBeattie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@GavinBeattie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GavinBeattie)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-kibana-vs-watcher-elasticsearch/280311/1 "2021-08-03T12:48:57Z")

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In the Alerts connector options for email, is there a way to use the same inbuilt email account options e.g. [noreply@watcheralert.found.io](mailto:noreply@watcheralert.found.io)? We are using the hosted Elasticsearch environment.

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-kibana-vs-watcher-elasticsearch/280311/2 "2021-08-03T19:02:21Z")

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Hi @GavinBeattie Thank you for using Elastic Cloud.

Today you will need to provide your own SMTP endpoint for the Kibana Alerts.

There are plans to add an Elastic Cloud email endpoint in the future but, apologies I can not provide an ETA for that.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-kibana-vs-watcher-elasticsearch/280311/3 "2021-08-31T19:02:30Z")

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