# Custom Action SDK?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-action-sdk/54376>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [June 30, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-action-sdk/54376 "2016-06-30T08:31:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![paulkeogh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@paulkeogh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paulkeogh)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-action-sdk/54376/1 "2016-06-30T08:31:58Z")

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Is it (or will it) be possible to develop custom actions for Watcher and plug them into a running instance ?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-action-sdk/54376/2 "2016-06-30T09:23:37Z")

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Hey Paul,

right now it's not possible. Are you missing something specific?

A common helper here is the possibility of using a watcher webhook to write to [logstash http input](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-http.html) and then either reuse an existing logstash plugin or write your own (a bit of ruby code).

--Alex

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**Author:** ![paulkeogh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@paulkeogh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paulkeogh)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-action-sdk/54376/3 "2016-06-30T12:22:39Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for the update.

I wanted to connect to a server which does proprietary messaging over a TCP socket.

Trying to avoid building a solution on an intermediate server, be it logstash or whatever.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![andrey81inmd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@andrey81inmd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrey81inmd)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-action-sdk/54376/4 "2017-02-03T20:43:24Z")

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I would second the request to be able to write custom action. Actually I would contribute the source code back if you want it 🙂

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-action-sdk/54376/5 "2017-07-06T13:42:03Z")

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