# Existing elk and OpenDistro

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/existing-elk-and-opendistro/1415>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Created:** [August 27, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/existing-elk-and-opendistro/1415 "2019-08-27T11:32:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tuckson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tuckson](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/Tuckson)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/existing-elk-and-opendistro/1415/1 "2019-08-27T11:32:06Z")

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Hi,

Arrived here via SentiNL. Looks like what I am looking for. However I do have some questions. Maybe someone here can help me out?

The primairy feature I need is alerting. I already have an elasticsearch/kibana cluster live, up and running. Is it possible to use this as base for Open Distro or is it difficult to migrate to opendistro? (currently our elk stack is on 6.7)

Thnx

edit: I read I can install independent plugins. Is there documentation on what I need to insall where and how?

edit2: Took part of original question to alert form.

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**Author:** ![skkosuri-amzn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/skkosuri-amzn/32/935_2.png) [@skkosuri-amzn](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/skkosuri-amzn)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/existing-elk-and-opendistro/1415/2 "2020-08-30T03:09:58Z")

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Hi,  
Documentation is available at: [About - Open Distro Documentation](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/)

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**Author:** ![skkosuri-amzn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/skkosuri-amzn/32/935_2.png) [@skkosuri-amzn](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/skkosuri-amzn)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/existing-elk-and-opendistro/1415/3 "2020-08-31T22:25:19Z")

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