# \[plugin-development\] Custom X-Pack action plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [February 20, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-development-custom-x-pack-action-plugin/220179 "2020-02-20T11:56:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![klashxx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/klashxx/32/63008_2.png) [@klashxx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/klashxx)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-development-custom-x-pack-action-plugin/220179/1 "2020-02-20T11:56:02Z")
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](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! ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-development-custom-x-pack-action-plugin/220179/2 "2020-02-20T13:13:11Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![klashxx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/klashxx/32/63008_2.png) [@klashxx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/klashxx)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-development-custom-x-pack-action-plugin/220179/3 "2020-02-20T13:35:26Z")
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](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 ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-development-custom-x-pack-action-plugin/220179/4 "2020-02-20T14:02:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![klashxx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/klashxx/32/63008_2.png) [@klashxx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/klashxx)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-development-custom-x-pack-action-plugin/220179/5 "2020-02-21T10:44:33Z")
Ok, Thanks again Alex ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-development-custom-x-pack-action-plugin/220179/6 "2020-03-20T10:44:34Z")
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