# Add scheduled reporting without restarting elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-scheduled-reporting-without-restarting-elasticsearch/154655>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 30, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-scheduled-reporting-without-restarting-elasticsearch/154655 "2018-10-30T12:29:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![HenrikT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@HenrikT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HenrikT)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-scheduled-reporting-without-restarting-elasticsearch/154655/1 "2018-10-30T12:29:10Z")

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Hello, I'm very new with elasticsearch/kibana but I have a question about scheduled reporting.

If I have understood the documentation correct then in order to be able to send email for a report that is generated in Kibana and to use a Watcher to send that report that specific email must be added/configured in the elasticsearch.yml

And when modifying this config the elastic service must be restarted.

Source: "Use the `email` action to send email notifications. To send email, you must configure at least one email account in `elasticsearch.yml` ."

This feels strange, if I want to add another user/email that can get reports I must first configure it in the elasticsearch.yml and then the service must be restarted? Is there no other way to get emails with reports?

Or maybe I simply misunderstood the documentation.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-scheduled-reporting-without-restarting-elasticsearch/154655/2 "2018-11-27T12:29:21Z")

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