Kibana Notifications Plugin

The Notifications plugin provides a set of services to help Solutions and plugins send notifications to users.

Notifications Plugin public API

Start

The start function exposes the following interface:

• isEmailServiceAvailable(): boolean: A function to check whether the deployment is properly configured and the EmailService can be correctly retrieved.
• getEmailService(): EmailService:
• A function to get the basic EmailService, which can be used to send plain text emails. If the EmailService is not available, trying to retrieve it will result in an Exception.

Usage

To use the exposed plugin start contract:

1. Make sure notifications is in your requiredPlugins in the kibana.jsonc file:

// <plugin>/kibana.jsonc
{
"id": "...",
"requiredPlugins": ["notifications"]
}

2. Use the exposed contract:

// <plugin>/server/plugin.ts
import { NotificationsPluginStart } from '../notifications/server`;

interface MyPluginStartDeps {
  notifications?: NotificationsPluginStart;
}

class MyPlugin {
  public start(
    core: CoreStart,
    { notifications }: MyPluginStartDeps
  ) {
    if (notifications.isEmailServiceAvailable()) {
      const emailService = notifications.getEmailService();
      emailService.sendPlainTextEmail({
          to: 'foo@bar.com',
          subject: 'Some subject',
          message: 'Hello world!',
      });
    }
    ...
  }
}

Requirements

• This plugin currently depends on the 'actions' plugin, as it uses Connectors under the hood.

• Note also that for each notification channel the corresponding connector must be preconfigured. E.g. to enable email notifications, an Email connector must exist in the system.

• Once the appropriate connectors are preconfigured in kibana.yaml, you can configure the 'notifications' plugin by adding:

  yamlCopy

  notifications:
    connectors:
      default:
        email: elastic-cloud-email  # The identifier of the configured connector