# Email alerting mechanism in Open Distro

**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-mechanism-in-open-distro/3670
**Category:** Alerting
**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-mechanism-in-open-distro/3670 "2020-09-02T12:15:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Saravana37](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Saravana37](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/Saravana37)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-mechanism-in-open-distro/3670/1 "2020-09-02T12:15:50Z")

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Hello All ,

I am looking for the possibilities of how we can configure Email Alerting in OD For Elastic search. I have already configured Slack API for alerting and now looking for email alerting .Do we have any proven method for the same ? Kindly let me know.

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### Author: ![stmx38](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/stmx38/32/4354_2.png) [@stmx38](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/stmx38)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-mechanism-in-open-distro/3670/2 "2020-09-02T12:43:03Z")

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Hello @Saravana37, it is on the way - [Refactor Email Destination for Kibana #176](https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/alerting-kibana-plugin/pull/176)

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### Author: ![Saravana37](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Saravana37](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/Saravana37)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-mechanism-in-open-distro/3670/3 "2020-09-10T10:28:49Z")

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Hello @stmx38 ,

Thanks for the info . Do you have any idea when is this expected to be released ? Any time soon ?

Thanks and Regards  
Saravana S

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### Author: ![stmx38](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/stmx38/32/4354_2.png) [@stmx38](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/stmx38)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-mechanism-in-open-distro/3670/4 "2020-09-10T11:01:25Z")

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Accordingly to their [Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/projects/3): Not coming, not next but 3-rd one release?

 ![Screenshot 2020-09-10 at 13.51.41](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/mauve_hedgehog/original/1X/15dd31f21bd28e6c9356ad4fb1ccdd89f9af46a6.png)

Related to [your last post](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-option-in-od/3723), is there a way to use a Custom webhook to send Email?

Something like [https://www.mail2webhook.com](https://www.mail2webhook.com) but for outgoing mails. Maybe some mail senders provides such services ([SendGrid](https://sendgrid.com/solutions/email-api/)?) or maybe there is a way to use local Postfix with some HTTP API over it.

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### Author: ![praveensameneni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@praveensameneni](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/praveensameneni)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-mechanism-in-open-distro/3670/5 "2020-09-10T15:43:53Z")

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We should have the email feature in the next release going through the refactoring changes. We are working on integrating SNS into ODFE and that’s another option to send an email (not the most ideal).

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### Author: ![mcatany](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@mcatany](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/mcatany)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/email-alerting-mechanism-in-open-distro/3670/6 "2020-09-16T10:34:33Z")

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Hi, here you have a possible solution:

> **[Kibana mail alerting with Logstash](https://medium.com/bluekiri/kibana-mail-alerting-with-logstash-43fb9e4789f2)**
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