# Steps to install and get alerting functionality

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/steps-to-install-and-get-alerting-functionality/1491>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Created:** [September 10, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/steps-to-install-and-get-alerting-functionality/1491 "2019-09-10T11:22:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bf31415](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bf31415](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/bf31415)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/steps-to-install-and-get-alerting-functionality/1491/1 "2019-09-10T11:22:18Z")

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Is it possible to get kibana alerting feature by simply installing the plugin?

This page: [Standalone Elasticsearch Plugin Install - Open Distro Documentation](http://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/install/plugins/)

seem to suggest i can run vanilla (non opendistro) 7.1.1 ES and kibana and just install the plugin of interest (in my case its alerting). I did this step: [Standalone Elasticsearch Plugin Install - Open Distro Documentation](http://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/install/plugins/#alerting)

to install the plugin and I see the plugin:

# /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin list

opendistro\_alerting

But going into kibana I don’t see an “A” on the left hand side column. I’ve stop/started kibana a couple of times. I’m likely missing something very obvious-- any pointers appreciated.

Thanks  
brian

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**Author:** ![dbbaughe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@dbbaughe](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/dbbaughe)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/steps-to-install-and-get-alerting-functionality/1491/2 "2019-09-10T16:44:45Z")

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Hi @bf31415,

Alerting has two plugins, an Elasticsearch plugin and a Kibana plugin. If you’d also like to use the Kibana Alerting UI you can follow similar steps to install the Kibana plugin here:

> **[Standalone Kibana Plugin Install](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/kibana/plugins/)**
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> Documentation for Open Distro, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch OSS with advanced security, alerting, deep performance analysis, and more.

Thanks,  
Drew

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**Author:** ![bf31415](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bf31415](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/bf31415)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/steps-to-install-and-get-alerting-functionality/1491/3 "2019-09-10T20:19:28Z")

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Thanks. I wonder if this page should be updated:

> **[Alerting](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/alerting/)**
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> Documentation for Open Distro, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch OSS with advanced security, alerting, deep performance analysis, and more.

specifically, adding an install section which basically says “alerting via the kibana UI requires two plugins to be installed, the elastic alerting plugin (directions at url foo) and the kibana UI alerting plugin (directions at the link above)”. I’ll float a suggested page change.

thanks  
Brian