# Kibana Plugin Idea: Custom Alert Connector

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-idea-custom-alert-connector/272846>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting, kibana-plugin-development\
**Created:** [May 12, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-idea-custom-alert-connector/272846 "2021-05-12T20:08:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Thomas\_Vaudry-Read](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomas_vaudry-read/32/84506_2.png) [@Thomas\_Vaudry-Read](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thomas_Vaudry-Read)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-idea-custom-alert-connector/272846/1 "2021-05-12T20:08:56Z")

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Hi,

I have been looking into alerting on Kibana, but only the internal connectors are available on the basic license. Is it possible to develop a custom connector for the alerting to action on a different endpoint?

For example, I would like to create a custom connector that will send the alert to my company software, so that we can be alerted through our software.

By this, I do not mean using the webhook option that is available, I mean to actually integrate a custom connector. Specifically because I would like to remain on the basic license.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![brianseeders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brianseeders/32/84831_2.png) [@brianseeders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brianseeders)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-idea-custom-alert-connector/272846/2 "2021-05-18T20:51:52Z")

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Hey @Thomas_Vaudry-Read,

I believe it may be technically possible to [create a custom Kibana plugin](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/external-plugin-development.html) that adds a new connector, but it's largely undocumented at the moment and will likely be difficult to maintain as the underlying APIs are rapidly changing.

Take a look here: [kibana/x-pack/plugins/actions at master · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/x-pack/plugins/actions#developing-new-action-types)

My suggestion at the moment if you're very interested in doing this is to create a GitHub issue in the Kibana repository, and the team that manages the connectors framework may be able to help.

Thanks  
Brian

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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:** [June 15, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-idea-custom-alert-connector/272846/3 "2021-06-15T20:52:06Z")

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