# Additional Payload in Watcher

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additional-payload-in-watcher/282959>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additional-payload-in-watcher/282959 "2021-08-31T19:35:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![6igwig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/6igwig/32/88971_2.png) [@6igwig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/6igwig)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additional-payload-in-watcher/282959/1 "2021-08-31T19:35:42Z")

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On [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/format-triggered-time-to-local-time-zone-in-action/144299/2) post @spinscale mentioned adding the results of the script transform to an "additional payload"

How is that done? (As opposed to replacing the current payload with the results of a transform)

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additional-payload-in-watcher/282959/2 "2021-09-01T08:36:45Z")

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I was referring to not only return the **new objects** but also the **existing** payload in the transform in order to preserve it.

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**Author:** ![6igwig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/6igwig/32/88971_2.png) [@6igwig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/6igwig)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additional-payload-in-watcher/282959/4 "2021-09-02T12:27:29Z")

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gotcha, thanks!!

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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:** [September 30, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additional-payload-in-watcher/282959/5 "2021-09-30T12:27:33Z")

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