# sentinl/sentinl

Kibana Alert & Report App for Elasticsearch

Repository: https://github.com/sentinl/sentinl
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sentinl
Homepage: https://qxip.net
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: alert, elasticsearch, kibana, reporting, alerting, scheduler, kibi, watchdog, kibana-dashboard, visualization, watcher, elk, anomaly, timeseries, kaae, pdf, anomaly-detection, plugin, elastic, alarm
Last push: 2026-01-21T23:28:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 51/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 63, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3770, "days_push": 224, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1320, forks 292 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:21.713716+00:00)

## What it is
SENTINL is a Kibana plugin that adds alerting and reporting to Elasticsearch, letting users create scheduled watchers that run queries, apply programmable validators, and trigger configurable notification actions. It also produces timed PNG/PDF snapshots of Kibana dashboards (or any website) and delivers them as email attachments, with alert history viewable in Kibana charts and annotations.

## Use cases
- send alerts when elasticsearch query results change
- free alternative to elastic watcher for kibana
- schedule pdf snapshots of kibana dashboards
- monitor elasticsearch timeseries and get email notifications
- set up anomaly alerts on kibana data
- generate scheduled reports from elk dashboards
- track alert and report history in kibana visualizations

## When to choose
- you run Kibana 6.x or Siren Investigate and need alerting without a paid Elastic license
- you want free, independent Watcher-style monitors with custom actions on Elasticsearch data
- you need scheduled PNG/PDF reports of dashboards emailed automatically
- you want alert events annotated and charted directly inside Kibana

## When to avoid
- you use Kibana 7.x/8.x, since SENTINL targets the 6.x line and Siren bundles its own version
- you already have a commercial Elastic subscription with native Alerting/Watcher
- you need a project with an active maintainer community, as SENTINL is publicly seeking new maintainers

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: alerting, monitoring, scheduling, pdf, email, data-visualization
- domain: monitoring, analytics, data-visualization
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: kibana-plugin, elasticsearch, elk-stack, watcher, reporting, dashboard-snapshots, anomaly-detection, siren-investigate, alarm, timeseries, search, real-time, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- sentinl/sentinl (main) score 51

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.713716+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:47:51.487055+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sentinl/sentinl (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.713716+00:00, sha 3cf0e6199d84)
  - homepage: https://qxip.net (fetched 2026-08-29T12:06:34.041481+00:00, sha a910b364b2b8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.