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Fix alerting documentation encryption key requirement (#63512) (#63618)
* Fix documentation to indicate encryption key config required regardless if security is used or not * Update docs/user/alerting/index.asciidoc Co-Authored-By: gchaps <33642766+gchaps@users.noreply.github.com> * Update docs/user/alerting/index.asciidoc Co-Authored-By: gchaps <33642766+gchaps@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: gchaps <33642766+gchaps@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: gchaps <33642766+gchaps@users.noreply.github.com>
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[[alerting-setup-prerequisites]]
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== Setup and prerequisites
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If you are using an *on-premises* Elastic Stack deployment:
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* In the kibana.yml configuration file, add the <<alert-action-settings-kb,`xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey`>> setting.
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If you are using an *on-premises* Elastic Stack deployment with <<using-kibana-with-security, *security*>>:
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* TLS must be configured for communication <<configuring-tls-kib-es, between {es} and {kib}>>. {kib} alerting uses <<api-keys, API keys>> to secure background alert checks and actions, and API keys require {ref}/configuring-tls.html#tls-http[TLS on the HTTP interface].
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* In the kibana.yml configuration file, add the <<alert-action-settings-kb,`xpack.encryptedSavedObjects.encryptionKey` setting>>
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* Transport Layer Security (TLS) must be configured for communication <<configuring-tls-kib-es, between {es} and {kib}>>. {kib} alerting uses <<api-keys, API keys>> to secure background alert checks and actions, and API keys require {ref}/configuring-tls.html#tls-http[TLS on the HTTP interface].
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