Kibana Alerting Rules

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Managing rule lifecycle (enable
• Rules-as-code workflows

Example prompts

• “/kibana-alerting-rules”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Set action frequency per action, not per rule. The notify_when field at the rule level is deprecated in favor
2. 2Use alert summaries to reduce notification noise. Configure actions to send periodic summaries.
3. 3Always add a recovery action. Rules without a recovery action leave incidents open in PagerDuty, Jira, and
4. 4Set a reasonable check interval. The minimum recommended interval is 1m.
5. 5Use alert_delay to suppress transient spikes. Setting {"active": 3} means the alert only fires after 3
6. 6Tag rules consistently. Use tags like production, staging, team-platform for filtering.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e4f9845. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Kibana Alerting Rules loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 436 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~51

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from aspectrr/deer at commit e4f9845, republished under its MIT licence (© aspectrr). 436 words, ~1,837 tokens.

name

kibana-alerting-rules

description

Create and manage Kibana alerting rules via REST API or Terraform. Use when creating, updating, or managing rule lifecycle (enable, disable, mute, snooze) or rules-as-code workflows.

metadata.author

elastic

metadata.version

0.1.0

metadata.source

elastic/agent-skills//skills/kibana/kibana-alerting-rules

kbn-xsrf: true

curl -X POST "https://my-kibana:5601/api/alerting/rule/my-rule-id" \
  -H "kbn-xsrf: true" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey <your-api-key>" \
  -d '{
    "name": "High error rate",
    "rule_type_id": ".es-query",
    "consumer": "stackAlerts",
    "schedule": { "interval": "5m" },
    "params": {
      "index": ["logs-*"],
      "timeField": "@timestamp",
      "esQuery": "{\"query\":{\"match\":{\"log.level\":\"error\"}}}",
      "threshold": [100],
      "thresholdComparator": ">",
      "timeWindowSize": 5,
      "timeWindowUnit": "m",
      "size": 100
    },
    "actions": [
      {
        "id": "my-slack-connector-id",
        "group": "query matched",
        "params": {
          "message": "Alert: {{rule.name}} - {{context.hits}} hits detected"
        }
      }
    ],
    "tags": ["production", "errors"]
  }'

curl -X GET "https://my-kibana:5601/api/alerting/rules/_find?per_page=20&page=1&search=cpu&sort_field=name&sort_order=asc" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey <your-api-key>"

curl -X POST ".../api/alerting/rule/{id}/_enable" -H "kbn-xsrf: true"
curl -X POST ".../api/alerting/rule/{id}/_disable" -H "kbn-xsrf: true"
curl -X POST ".../api/alerting/rule/{id}/_mute_all" -H "kbn-xsrf: true"
curl -X DELETE ".../api/alerting/rule/{id}" -H "kbn-xsrf: true"

resource "elasticstack_kibana_alerting_rule" "cpu_alert" {
  name         = "CPU usage critical"
  consumer     = "stackAlerts"
  rule_type_id = ".index-threshold"
  interval     = "1m"
  enabled      = true

  params = jsonencode({
    index              = ["metrics-*"]
    timeField          = "@timestamp"
    aggType            = "avg"
    aggField           = "system.cpu.total.pct"
    groupBy            = "top"
    termField          = "host.name"
    termSize           = 10
    threshold          = [0.9]
    thresholdComparator = ">"
    timeWindowSize     = 5
    timeWindowUnit     = "m"
  })

  tags = ["infrastructure", "production"]
}

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Files

Just SKILL.md in deer-cli/internal/skill/defaults/kibana-alerting-rules of aspectrr/deer.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e4f9845