# Kibana 7.13/7.14 Uptime setting does not allow selecting email connector

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-13-7-14-uptime-setting-does-not-allow-selecting-email-connector/282885>\
**Category:** Synthetics\
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-13-7-14-uptime-setting-does-not-allow-selecting-email-connector/282885 "2021-08-31T07:36:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![hendry.lim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hendry.lim/32/71328_2.png) [@hendry.lim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hendry.lim)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-13-7-14-uptime-setting-does-not-allow-selecting-email-connector/282885/1 "2021-08-31T07:36:29Z")

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We are unable to select email connector in Default connectors drop down on Uptime settings page.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/0/00281fcf479b8ba4e5618d2bb023f69a6bed2d3f.png)

The email action/connector can be selected through Create rule

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/f/af5a0e540107c4217116b9ac49fe3b100e7e51b8.png)

The email connector was returned by `/api/actions`, so wonder why it is not displayed on the UI

```auto
[{
    "id": "94aa2f30-0a2d-11ec-a1bf-ef18a994b933",
    "actionTypeId": ".email",
    "name": "Email connector",
    "isMissingSecrets": false,
    "config": {
      "hasAuth": false,
      "from": "aa@aa.com",
      "host": "localhost",
      "port": 25,
      "service": null,
      "secure": null
    },
    "isPreconfigured": false,
    "referencedByCount": 0
  }, {
    "id": "539e4a61-d5ce-4df3-83bf-ad204ceef02b",
    "actionTypeId": ".server-log",
    "name": "Monitoring: Write to Kibana log",
    "config": {},
    "isMissingSecrets": false,
    "isPreconfigured": false,
    "referencedByCount": 14
  }, {
    "id": "42a6360c-4e13-4de3-9a89-39fa8a560ab4",
    "actionTypeId": ".webhook",
    "name": "MS Teams ES alerting test",
    "config": {
      "method": "post",
      "url": "",
      "headers": null,
      "hasAuth": false
    },
    "isMissingSecrets": false,
    "isPreconfigured": false,
    "referencedByCount": 2
  }
]

```

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**Author:** ![jkambic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jkambic/32/53306_2.png) [@jkambic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jkambic)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-13-7-14-uptime-setting-does-not-allow-selecting-email-connector/282885/2 "2021-08-31T14:16:45Z")

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Hi @hendry.lim - you're right, today the UI doesn't display email as an option for the simple alert. Today, that's not a supported use case, but it's a feature we intend to implement in the future, as you are not the first person who has requested this.

I've created an enhancement request to track the progress of it [here](https://github.com/elastic/uptime/issues/358). If you need to use email alerts for the time being, the recommended action would be to create a rule that encompasses the monitors you want to alert on using the `Create rule` dialogue that you have shown in your post.

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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:** [September 24, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-13-7-14-uptime-setting-does-not-allow-selecting-email-connector/282885/3 "2021-09-24T14:16:50Z")

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