# Are Elasticsearch X-Pack Watcher settings dynamic or static?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-elasticsearch-x-pack-watcher-settings-dynamic-or-static/114904>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [January 10, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-elasticsearch-x-pack-watcher-settings-dynamic-or-static/114904 "2018-01-10T15:15:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![reswob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/reswob/32/38015_2.png) [@reswob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/reswob)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-elasticsearch-x-pack-watcher-settings-dynamic-or-static/114904/1 "2018-01-10T15:15:56Z")

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I need to make one change to the x-pack settings on my ES cluster. According to:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/modules.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/modules.html)

some settings can be updated via the cluster-update-settings API, but when you look at the x-pack watcher settings:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/notification-settings.html#notification-settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/notification-settings.html#notification-settings)

they don't say if those settings are static or dynamic. Does anyone know?

I'd like to not have to restart my whole cluster just to make this one change....

Thanks

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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:** [January 10, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-elasticsearch-x-pack-watcher-settings-dynamic-or-static/114904/2 "2018-01-10T15:41:00Z")

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Hey,

so the only settings being able to update dynamically are the notification based ones around setting up user accounts.

--Alex

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**Author:** ![reswob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/reswob/32/38015_2.png) [@reswob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/reswob)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-elasticsearch-x-pack-watcher-settings-dynamic-or-static/114904/3 "2018-01-10T16:07:32Z")

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Thanks.  
I guess I'm scheduling a cluster restart.

It would be helpful if the guide/docs stated that these settings were static with a link to those other pages.

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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:** [February 7, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-elasticsearch-x-pack-watcher-settings-dynamic-or-static/114904/4 "2018-02-07T16:07:38Z")

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