# Automating watcher creation?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automating-watcher-creation/240813>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [July 11, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automating-watcher-creation/240813 "2020-07-11T20:38:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![John\_Ham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_ham/32/46751_2.png) [@John\_Ham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Ham)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automating-watcher-creation/240813/1 "2020-07-11T20:38:19Z")

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Hi! Question about creation of watchers in Kibana. I use 7.5.1 and have set up a number of watchers using Kibana's UI. Can watchers be created in an automated way?

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automating-watcher-creation/240813/2 "2020-07-13T15:39:03Z")

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I would log this as an ER here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new)

There is some related discussion here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/45571](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/45571) . Kibana introduced a new Alerting framework (7.8), which in the long term will replace watcher. The same discussion of automating creation of watches (and ways how do that) is happening there as well.

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**Author:** ![John\_Ham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_ham/32/46751_2.png) [@John\_Ham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Ham)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automating-watcher-creation/240813/3 "2020-07-13T19:52:22Z")

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Thank you Thomas. I'll check out the discussion and log the ER.

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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:** [August 10, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automating-watcher-creation/240813/4 "2020-08-10T19:52:33Z")

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