# Can Watcher search and alert on external Elastic installations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-watcher-search-and-alert-on-external-elastic-installations/38161>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-watcher-search-and-alert-on-external-elastic-installations/38161 "2015-12-30T08:52:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jbowker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbowker/32/6911_2.png) [@jbowker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbowker)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-watcher-search-and-alert-on-external-elastic-installations/38161/1 "2015-12-30T08:52:24Z")

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Hi Steve @skearns is it possible to run Watcher on one installation and alert on search results on external Elastic instance.

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**Author:** ![jbowker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbowker/32/6911_2.png) [@jbowker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbowker)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-watcher-search-and-alert-on-external-elastic-installations/38161/2 "2015-12-30T09:05:52Z")

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I think this has answered my question:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/current/installing-watcher.html#deploying-separate-cluster](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/current/installing-watcher.html#deploying-separate-cluster)

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**Author:** ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-watcher-search-and-alert-on-external-elastic-installations/38161/3 "2015-12-30T12:42:18Z")

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Looks like you found the answer! Thanks for sharing 🙂

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-watcher-search-and-alert-on-external-elastic-installations/38161/4 "2017-07-06T13:47:32Z")

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