# All states of watcher status

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-states-of-watcher-status/203313>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [October 12, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-states-of-watcher-status/203313 "2019-10-12T10:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![real\_legend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@real\_legend](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/real_legend)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-states-of-watcher-status/203313/1 "2019-10-12T10:14:53Z")

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there is a state object in status . what's the all possible states of status ?

i can see only active:true :  
"status":  
{"state":  
{"active":true,  
"timestamp":"2019-10-12T09:48:55.058Z"  
}  
}

is there any way to know that watcher status is firing or not?

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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:** [October 14, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-states-of-watcher-status/203313/2 "2019-10-14T11:59:55Z")

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Those fields are not queryable in the `.watches` index.

You could query the watcher history and extract this information.

Out of curiosity, what exactly are you trying to find out? Maybe there is another way to get this information.

--Alex

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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 11, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-states-of-watcher-status/203313/3 "2019-11-11T12:00:02Z")

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