# Alerting Plugin + X-Pack Basic

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/alerting-plugin-x-pack-basic/1839>\
**Category:** Search Guard\
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/alerting-plugin-x-pack-basic/1839 "2020-05-21T15:39:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![delphi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@delphi](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/delphi)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/alerting-plugin-x-pack-basic/1839/1 "2020-05-21T15:39:14Z")

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Hi there.

I’d like to know if is possible using x-pack (basic licesing) with security enabled alongside Signals (Alerting Plugin). I need only Alerting plugin. All of another stuff I’m using from x-pack.

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**Author:** ![sc75651](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/sc75651/32/782_2.png) [@sc75651](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/sc75651)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/alerting-plugin-x-pack-basic/1839/2 "2020-05-22T18:17:52Z")

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Just FYI, latest Elastic have kibana alerting for free… alerts can create documents in an index or write to kibana logs … and eventually u can hook the index to Grafana for sending custom alerts to any end system …like pagerduty, email, slack etc

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**Author:** ![jkressin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/jkressin/32/9_2.png) [@jkressin](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/jkressin)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/alerting-plugin-x-pack-basic/1839/3 "2020-05-22T18:24:54Z")

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Signals Alerting is based on the security features of Search Guard for protecting sensitive information in watch definitions etc., so you cannot run it standalone. You can however run it with the Search Guard Community Edition, means use Security + Alerting from Search Guard, and all the rest from X-Pack.

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**Author:** ![delphi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@delphi](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/delphi)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/alerting-plugin-x-pack-basic/1839/4 "2020-05-23T02:39:18Z")

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Sounds good. Do you know if all X-Pack (basic) related stuff like Beats monitoring, APM, Metrics, etc? I won’t use OSS version.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![srgbnd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/srgbnd/32/506_2.png) [@srgbnd](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/srgbnd)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/alerting-plugin-x-pack-basic/1839/5 "2020-05-25T08:11:53Z")

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@delphi all X-Pack apps except security work with SearchGuard.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/system/32/1870_2.png) [@system](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/alerting-plugin-x-pack-basic/1839/6 "2020-06-15T08:11:57Z")

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