Elastic Synthetics Alerts in the same workspace to different teams

[jkambic (Justin Kambic)]

@DougR

process of setting up in tests for some applications where alerts for tests which need to be in the same workspace need to be routed to different teams. E.g., the components are part of an ov

Hi @DougR, thanks for using Synthetics!

Today, the default alert provided by Synthetics is not configurable. This is a limitation of Synthetics that we are hoping to improve in an upcoming release. Our main recommended workaround for users who need more flexibility is to use the Uptime rules. Synthetics is a superset of Uptime data, so the older rules will work on it as well. There are a few steps to get this working, as Uptime is disabled by default in 8.13.

1. Go to Kibana Advanced Settings and enable Uptime. Save settings.
   
   
2. Navigate to the Uptime app and go to its settings view, and change the "Heartbeat indices" field value to synthetics*
   
   
3. Go to the Observability Alerts view and manage alerts, you will see the Uptime rules are now available.
   

These older Uptime rules are more configurable and can be used in conjunction with alert actions like any other rule can.