# Alerting ignore a specific time period
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-ignore-a-specific-time-period/82050
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 11, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-ignore-a-specific-time-period/82050 "2017-04-11T20:53:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Groten](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ryan_Groten)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-ignore-a-specific-time-period/82050/1 "2017-04-11T20:53:33Z")
Is it possible to tell Watcher to either not run or suppress actions during a specific time period daily? For example, I want to run the watch every 30 minutes, but don't execute the action from 6PM - 7PM daily?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-ignore-a-specific-time-period/82050/2 "2017-04-12T08:37:32Z")
Hey,
I am sure you could use a fancy cron expression for that (I would have to look those up as well, not a cron wizard, sorry). Alternatively, if the input is not too resource intensive, you could check the `ctx.trigger.scheduled` time in the condition and just return false to not trigger any action.
Hope that helps!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Groten](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ryan_Groten)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-ignore-a-specific-time-period/82050/3 "2017-04-12T14:16:59Z")
I didn't even consider cron, I was focusing on the trigger interval built into the watch itself. I'll look into that, thanks!
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### Author:  [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-ignore-a-specific-time-period/82050/4 "2017-04-12T14:40:10Z")
If cron doesn't work for your use-case, I did something similar in this webinar [1]: during business hours, look at running processes, and send a slack message if steam\_osx is running.
On that page is a link to a gist with the watches I used [2], and I used a script condition to check the hour of the day[3]. The script condition there used Groovy (in ES 2.x) , so you'll need to update it to use Painless if you're using 5.0+, but the idea is the same.
[1] [https://www.elastic.co/webinars/getting-started-with-alerting-for-elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/getting-started-with-alerting-for-elasticsearch)
[2] [https://gist.github.com/skearns64/773dfd64c51d3007baf489be83549e0c#file-watcher\_webinar\_examples-2016-07-28-txt-L120](https://gist.github.com/skearns64/773dfd64c51d3007baf489be83549e0c#file-watcher_webinar_examples-2016-07-28-txt-L120)
[3] [https://gist.github.com/skearns64/773dfd64c51d3007baf489be83549e0c#file-watcher\_webinar\_examples-2016-07-28-txt-L195](https://gist.github.com/skearns64/773dfd64c51d3007baf489be83549e0c#file-watcher_webinar_examples-2016-07-28-txt-L195)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-ignore-a-specific-time-period/82050/5 "2017-05-10T14:50:02Z")
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