# Configuring email account for Watcher breaks Elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 6, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003 "2015-11-06T15:33:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuperPringles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/superpringles/32/5303_2.png) [@SuperPringles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SuperPringles)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003/1 "2015-11-06T15:33:51Z")
Hi there! I recently upgraded my ELK setup where Logstash and Elasticsearch are at 2.0.0 and Kibana at 4.2.0. So I wanted to install Watcher 2.0.0 so I could try out the new features. I wanted to try the email function just to check if watcher was working properly. I "sudo nano /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml" the yml of elasticsearch and entered this at the bottom of the file: ``` watcher.actions.email.service.account: work: profile: gmail email_defaults: from: myemail@gmail.com smtp: auth: true starttls.enable: true host: smtp.gmail.com port: 587 user: myemail@gmail.com password: mypassword ``` Obviously the email and password changed for privacy reasons. When I save this edit and restart elasticsearch it gives me a red start with the text "elasticsearch is not running" Before the edit and restart it gave me a white star with "elasticsearch is running". So what gives? Just to put it out there, I uncommented the network.host and port for connection reasons but that did not stop elasticsearch from running before I added the email configuration. Thanks 😄 ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003/2 "2015-11-06T15:48:35Z")
If Elasticsearch doesn't start I'm sure there will be something in the logs about it. ---
**Author:** ![SuperPringles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/superpringles/32/5303_2.png) [@SuperPringles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SuperPringles)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003/3 "2015-11-09T15:05:10Z")
Ah thanks @magnusbaeck ! Well here is a noob question but I'm currently using a bash terminal in Windows to manage my ELK setup. I haven't got much experience in either so I'm at kind of a loss as how to grab the logs. Can you guide me in the right direction so I can take a gander at the logs? ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003/4 "2015-11-09T15:14:22Z")
Elasticsearch usually stores its logs in /var/log/elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![SuperPringles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/superpringles/32/5303_2.png) [@SuperPringles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SuperPringles)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003/6 "2015-11-11T09:03:44Z")
@magnusbaeck Took me a while (laptop broke down) but I managed to get to my logs using another computer and a connection to the server. I can't see anything out of the ordinary to be honest. maybe you see something of interest? ``` [2015-11-10 04:24:23,760][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] version[2.0.0], pid[2735], build[de54438/2015-10-22T08:09:48Z] [2015-11-10 04:24:23,762][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] initializing ... [2015-11-10 04:24:23,906][INFO][plugins] [Graydon Creed] loaded [], sites [] [2015-11-10 04:24:24,099][INFO][env] [Graydon Creed] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/ (/dev/vda1)]], net usable_space [35.1gb], net total_space [39.2gb], spins? [possibly], types [ext4] [2015-11-10 04:24:27,448][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] initialized [2015-11-10 04:24:27,448][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] starting ... [2015-11-10 04:24:27,536][INFO][transport] [Graydon Creed] publish_address {localhost/127.0.0.1:9300}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:9300} [2015-11-10 04:24:27,554][INFO][discovery] [Graydon Creed] elasticsearch/l1jmIiaST8yXG_tHIYaPGA [2015-11-10 04:24:30,619][INFO][cluster.service] [Graydon Creed] new_master {Graydon Creed}{l1jmIiaST8yXG_tHIYaPGA}{127.0.0.1}{localhost/127.0.0.1:9300}, reason: zen-disco-join(elected_as_master, [0] joins received) [2015-11-10 04:24:30,689][INFO][http] [Graydon Creed] publish_address {localhost/127.0.0.1:9200}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:9200} [2015-11-10 04:24:30,690][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] started [2015-11-10 04:24:30,736][INFO][gateway] [Graydon Creed] recovered [0] indices into cluster_state [2015-11-10 04:26:37,919][INFO][cluster.metadata] [Graydon Creed] [.kibana] creating index, cause [api], templates [], shards [1]/[1], mappings [config] [2015-11-10 04:27:08,201][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] stopping ... [2015-11-10 04:27:08,261][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] stopped [2015-11-10 04:27:08,261][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] closing ... [2015-11-10 04:27:08,268][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] closed [2015-11-10 04:27:10,465][INFO][node] [Vibro] version[2.0.0], pid[2921], build[de54438/2015-10-22T08:09:48Z] [2015-11-10 04:27:10,467][INFO][node] [Vibro] initializing ... [2015-11-10 04:27:10,607][INFO][plugins] [Vibro] loaded [], sites [] [2015-11-10 04:27:10,760][INFO][env] [Vibro] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/ (/dev/vda1)]], net usable_space [34.7gb], net total_space [39.2gb], spins? [possibly], types [ext4] [2015-11-10 04:27:13,828][INFO][node] [Vibro] initialized [2015-11-10 04:27:13,829][INFO][node] [Vibro] starting ... [2015-11-10 04:27:13,913][INFO][transport] [Vibro] publish_address {localhost/127.0.0.1:9300}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:9300} [2015-11-10 04:27:13,930][INFO][discovery] [Vibro] elasticsearch/BgDUH7qHR2Oo6GOp_qJeBw [2015-11-10 04:27:17,009][INFO][cluster.service] [Vibro] new_master {Vibro}{BgDUH7qHR2Oo6GOp_qJeBw}{127.0.0.1}{localhost/127.0.0.1:9300}, reason: zen-disco-join(elected_as_master, [0] joins received) [2015-11-10 04:27:17,101][INFO][http] [Vibro] publish_address {localhost/127.0.0.1:9200}, bound_addresses {127.0.0.1:9200} [2015-11-10 04:27:17,101][INFO][node] [Vibro] started [2015-11-10 04:27:17,205][INFO][gateway] [Vibro] recovered [1] indices into cluster_state [2015-11-10 04:30:06,365][INFO][node] [Vibro] stopping ... [2015-11-10 04:30:06,458][INFO][node] [Vibro] stopped [2015-11-10 04:30:06,458][INFO][node] [Vibro] closing ... [2015-11-10 04:30:06,472][INFO][node] [Vibro] closed ``` ---
**Author:** ![dfr0](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dfr0/32/6433_2.png) [@dfr0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dfr0)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003/7 "2015-12-04T06:46:43Z")
I've exactly the same problem. ---
**Author:** ![SuperPringles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/superpringles/32/5303_2.png) [@SuperPringles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SuperPringles)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003/8 "2015-12-04T07:56:11Z")
Sadly I have yet to find out why. I moved on to other project as this was just an experiment ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-email-account-for-watcher-breaks-elasticsearch/34003/9 "2017-07-05T23:33:36Z")