Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Alerting V2 API

Alerting V2 is an ES|QL-first alerting API for managing rules, alert actions, and action policies. Use these endpoints to create and manage detection rules, act on alerts, and control when and how notifications are delivered. These APIs are experimental.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 52

GET /api/alerting/v2/action_policies List action policies #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies Create an action policy #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/_bulk_delete Delete action policies in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/_bulk_disable Disable action policies in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/_bulk_enable Enable action policies in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/_bulk_snooze Snooze action policies in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/_bulk_unsnooze Cancel snooze for action policies in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/_bulk_update_api_key Rotate API keys for action policies in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/_match_for_rule Match action policies for a rule #
DELETE /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id} Delete an action policy #
GET /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id} Get an action policy #
PATCH /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id} Partially update an action policy #
PUT /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id} Create or replace an action policy #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id}/_disable Disable an action policy #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id}/_enable Enable an action policy #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id}/_snooze Snooze an action policy #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id}/_unsnooze Unsnooze an action policy #
POST /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/{id}/_update_api_key Update an action policy API key #
GET /api/alerting/v2/action_policies/tags Get action policy tags #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/_bulk_action Bulk create alert actions #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/{group_hash}/_ack Acknowledge an alert #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/{group_hash}/_activate Activate an alert #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/{group_hash}/_assign Assign an alert to a user #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/{group_hash}/_deactivate Deactivate an alert #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/{group_hash}/_snooze Snooze an alert #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/{group_hash}/_tag Add tags to an alert #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/{group_hash}/_unack Unacknowledge an alert #
POST /api/alerting/v2/alerts/{group_hash}/_unsnooze Unsnooze an alert #
GET /api/alerting/v2/execution_history/action_policies List action policy executions #
GET /api/alerting/v2/execution_history/rules List rule executions #
GET /api/alerting/v2/rules List rules #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules Create a rule #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_bulk_delete Delete rules in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_bulk_disable Disable rules in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_bulk_enable Enable rules in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_bulk_get Get rules in bulk #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_bulk_update_api_key Update the API key of rules in bulk by ID #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_delete_by_query Delete rules matching a query (dry-run by default) #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_disable_by_query Disable rules matching a query (dry-run by default) #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_enable_by_query Enable rules matching a query (dry-run by default) #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/_update_api_key_by_query Update the API key of rules matching a query (dry-run by default) #
DELETE /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id} Delete a rule #
GET /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id} Get a rule #
PATCH /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id} Update a rule #
PUT /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id} Create or replace a rule #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id}/_disable Disable a rule #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id}/_enable Enable a rule #
POST /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id}/_run Run a rule now #
GET /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id}/history List rule change history #
GET /api/alerting/v2/rules/{id}/history/{eventId} Get a rule change-history event #
GET /api/alerting/v2/rules/tags Get rule tags #
GET /api/alerting/v2/suggestions/rule_event_fields Get matcher data fields suggestions #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch
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APIReference
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/
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Documentation
https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana
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APIReference
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elk-stack/refs/heads/main/openapi/elk-stack-alerting-v2-api-openapi.yml

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https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification
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SourceCode
https://github.com/elastic/kibana
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ToolCrosswalk
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elk-stack/refs/heads/main/mcp/elk-stack-tool-crosswalk.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

elk-stack-alerting-v2-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  contact:
    name: Kibana Team
  description: The Kibana REST APIs enable you to manage resources such as connectors, data views, and saved objects.
  title: Kibana Alerting V2 API
  version: ''
  x-doc-license:
    name: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
  x-feedbackLink:
    label: Feedback
    url: https://github.com/elastic/docs-content/issues/new?assignees=&labels=feedback%2Ccommunity&projects=&template=api-feedback.yaml&title=%5BFeedback%5D%3A+
servers:
- url: https://{kibana_url}
  variables:
    kibana_url:
      default: localhost:5601
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
- basicAuth: []
tags:


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