[plugin-development] Custom X-Pack action plugin

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Hi every one.

This is the situation, I want to develop a new X-Pack action plugin to implement some missing functionality in the default catalog (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/6.2/actions.html).

The documentation is very concise and don’t know where to start, I have even doubts whether this is possible as an completely external plugin.

Can anyone point a guideline to accomplish this task in the best canonical way?

Any advice will be really welcome, I’m new in Elastic and kind of lost.

Many thanks!

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Hey,

I suppose you are referring to actions in the alerting code. This is currently not extensible with external plugins, but needs to be within the alerting/watcher plugin. If you think others can benefit from this as well, feel free to open a github issue to discuss if people are interested in this functionality.

Thanks!

--Alex

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Hi Alex!, many thanks for your help and the quick response.

Yes, I was talking about the alerting actions. This is a very custom functionality so I doubt some else will be interested.

Let me reformulate the question: Suppose I want to extend the XPack watcher email action (https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/95977f4db9f5ccf21278adcc4e117e508ede6b29/x-pack/plugin/watcher/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/watcher/actions/email), is this possible?

Are there any other way to achieve this?

Could I write an external plugin to mimic this functionality?

Not sure If I have expressed myself clearly.

As I said, I really appreciate your help, this Elastic world is huge ….

Cheers

Juan Diego

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If it is very customized, it is unlikely that it will be taken into the main branch. the only other thing I see is that there is infrastructure to be able to register own inputs and actions - which right now is not there.

Maybe open an issue in the Elasticsearch repository to discuss this further, if that is feasible for the development team or not.

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Ok, Thanks again Alex

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