# Kibana Alerts

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts/290462>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [November 29, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts/290462 "2021-11-29T16:32:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![paddy3267](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5ac83/32.png) [@paddy3267](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paddy3267)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts/290462/1 "2021-11-29T16:32:09Z")

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Hi, is it possible to create Kibana alerts via a config file (preferably YAML), or Kibana GUI is the only way to do so? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts/290462/2 "2021-11-29T18:46:26Z")

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You can use the [alerting API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/alerting-apis.html) to create alerts.

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**Author:** ![paddy3267](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5ac83/32.png) [@paddy3267](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paddy3267)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts/290462/3 "2021-11-30T07:49:04Z")

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Thanks for letting me know, I'll give it a shot.

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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:** [December 28, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts/290462/4 "2021-12-28T07:49:36Z")

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