# Sending email when alerts trigger

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-when-alerts-trigger/355805>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [March 20, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-when-alerts-trigger/355805 "2024-03-20T11:04:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![codi639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba9def/32.png) [@codi639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codi639)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-when-alerts-trigger/355805/1 "2024-03-20T11:04:19Z")

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Hello everyone,

I'm using ELK-Stack version 8.12 and I don't have any license, I need everything for free.  
I've created alerts, and I'm trying to send them by email or using the Telegram API.  
I saw this [topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-email-alerts-in-kibana/338219), which led me to this [tutorial](https://medium.com/bluekiri/kibana-mail-alerting-with-logstash-43fb9e4789f2).  
It suggests using the Kibana webhook, but it looks like I need a "gold license" to use it.  
Am I doing something wrong, maybe I misunderstood the "Kibana Opendistro" part?

Regards

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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:** [March 20, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-when-alerts-trigger/355805/2 "2024-03-20T11:04:19Z")

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-when-alerts-trigger/355805/3 "2024-03-20T11:55:52Z")

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> [@codi639](#):
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> Am I doing something wrong, maybe I misunderstood the "Kibana Opendistro" part?

The tutorial you followed does not use the Kibana distributed by Elastic, it is an old tutorial based on Opendistro, which was the Elasticsearch/Kibana fork from AWS and it is now called Opensearch.

In Kibana 8.12 to be able to use the email webhook you need a paid license.

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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:** [April 17, 2024, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-email-when-alerts-trigger/355805/4 "2024-04-17T11:56:41Z")

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