# Builtin X-Pack Watchers Email Address

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/builtin-x-pack-watchers-email-address/165199>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [January 22, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/builtin-x-pack-watchers-email-address/165199 "2019-01-22T09:27:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![X\_Calibur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b2d939/32.png) [@X\_Calibur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/X_Calibur)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/builtin-x-pack-watchers-email-address/165199/1 "2019-01-22T09:27:37Z")

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We keep receiving alerts from "X-Pack Admin" regarding shards allocation, cluster members joining  
disjoining etc. My guess is that it's coming from the builtin X-Pack Watchers which are in-editable. Does anyone know where is it taking it's destination email addresses from?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/7/8721c65548336218113ca9d04c589d8a6d2b6958.png)

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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 19, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/builtin-x-pack-watchers-email-address/165199/2 "2019-02-19T09:28:36Z")

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Closed on February 19, 2019, 9:28am UTC

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