Setting Alerting configuration on Kibana 7.9

Question

I am using basic license for elastic search with on-premises deployment without security. I want to get started with Alerting and Actions in Kibana 7.9. I have set xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey value as per documentation here

I restarted kibana after adding encrytionKey in kibana.yml file.

Still I am getting the same error as “You must set an encryption key”

Any leads will be appreciated.

And after kibana was restarted, it just crashed. needed to revert kibana.yml.

Answer 1

1. bin/kibana-encryption-keys.bat generate

2. copy your information

   xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

   xpack.reporting.encryptionKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

   xpack.security.encryptionKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

3. paste in your kibana.yml

4. reset ElasticSearch and Kibana

5. done

Answer 2

I found the solution as discussed here

Restarted elasticsearch and kibana - both services after adding encryptionKey in kibana.yml.