# Want to configure email in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/want-to-configure-email-in-kibana/246675>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/want-to-configure-email-in-kibana/246675 "2020-08-27T18:19:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/want-to-configure-email-in-kibana/246675/3 "2020-08-28T04:55:13Z")

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There have been few discuss posts around these. Please refer:

> [@Configuring email server in yml file](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-server-in-yml-file/145194):
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> Hi Team, I am new to Kibana/ES. I want to configure an e-mail server in elasticsearch.yml file so that I can send alert e-mails based on messages send the logs. How can I do this through the Kibana/ES UI? Thanks, Mark

official documentation:

> **[Watcher email action | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/actions-email.html)**

Thanks  
Rashmi

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