# Kibana alerts and actions setup
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-and-actions-setup/305758
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 26, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-and-actions-setup/305758 "2022-05-26T23:45:08Z")
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### Author:  [@kyle\_che](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kyle_che)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-and-actions-setup/305758/1 "2022-05-26T23:45:09Z")
i am trying to get alerting and actions working but it seems to be disabled. Kibana points me to [Alerting and Actions | Kibana Guide [7.10] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.10/alerting-getting-started.html#alerting-setup-prerequisites)
I have security setup already in Elasticsearch for authentication.
xpack.security.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate
xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: elastic-certificates.p12
xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: elastic-certificates.p12
I then ran the following for kibana to create a certificate. I also tried with the actual hostname and ip address but that didn't help either.
bin/Elasticsearch-certutil cert -name kibana-server -dns localhost,127.0.0.1
it created a file in /usr/share/Elasticsearch/kibana-server.p12. I then copied it to the kibana directory in /etc/kibana and then set the following configs in kibana.yml. I tried to start up kibana but no luck, just keeps failing.
server.port: 5601
server.host: "######"
server.name: "######"
Elasticsearch.hosts: ["https://######:9200"]
Elasticsearch.username: "kibana\_system"
Elasticsearch.password: "\*\*\*\*\*"
logging.dest: /var/log/kibana/kibana.log
xpack.monitoring.enabled: true
xpack.monitoring.kibana.collection.enabled: true
server.ssl.enabled: true
server.ssl.keystore.path: "kibana-server.p12"
server.ssl.keystore.password: ""
Not sure what I'm missing to get this working so that i can use the Alerting and Actions part of management in the Kibana UI. any help is appreciated.
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### Author:  [@kyle\_che](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kyle_che)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-and-actions-setup/305758/2 "2022-05-31T15:31:41Z")
any help would be much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-and-actions-setup/305758/3 "2022-06-28T15:31:42Z")
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