# Setting for alerts in elk

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-for-alerts-in-elk/274199>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 27, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-for-alerts-in-elk/274199 "2021-05-27T11:33:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![varunbsgaur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/varunbsgaur/32/125005_2.png) [@varunbsgaur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/varunbsgaur)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-for-alerts-in-elk/274199/1 "2021-05-27T11:33:47Z")

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In order to use alerts in ELK I followed the mentioned steps but always found some error while starting up the local elasticsearch and kibana servers. Kindly help me know where I went wrong .

step 1 :creating certificateauthority by command (keeping default name and password)  
"elasticsearch-certutil ca"  
step 2: creating certificate by (giving default name and password)  
"elasticsearch-certutil cert --ca elastic-stack-ca.p12"  
step 3: creating certs folder in config of elasticsearch  
step 4: copying .p12 certificate in certs folder  
step 5 :Enable TLS and specify the information required to access the node’s certificate by  
"xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: elastic-certificates.p12  
xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: elastic-certificates.p12 "  
step 6 : copying ca in Kibana's config  
step 7: restart elasticsearch server and kibana server

Reference document:

> **[Encrypting communications in Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide \[7.11\] |...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.11/configuring-tls.html#tls-http)**

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**Author:** ![Patrick\_Mueller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/patrick_mueller/32/109425_2.png) [@Patrick\_Mueller](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Patrick_Mueller)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-for-alerts-in-elk/274199/2 "2021-06-01T19:05:32Z")

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What errors are you seeing?

I believe the instructions you're showing are general instructions for getting Kibana to communicate with elasticsearch via TLS. There's some alerting-specific instructions available here as well: [Alerting | Kibana Guide [7.13] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/alerting-getting-started.html#alerting-setup-prerequisites)

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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 29, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-for-alerts-in-elk/274199/3 "2021-06-29T19:06:07Z")

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