# Creating watch with webhook without params fails
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-watch-with-webhook-without-params-fails/128534
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-watch-with-webhook-without-params-fails/128534 "2018-04-18T12:49:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@dandrestor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dandrestor)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-watch-with-webhook-without-params-fails/128534/1 "2018-04-18T12:49:04Z")
I'm trying to create a watcher with a webhook action. I'm using the following:
```
{
...
"actions": {
"some-webhook": {
"webhook": {
"scheme": "http",
"host": "some_host",
"port": some_port,
"method": "post",
"path": "/some/path",
"headers": {
"Cache-Control": "no-cache",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
"body": "some JSON data"
}
}
}
}
```
When saving this, Elasticsearch will add an empty "params" key, like this:
```
{
...
"actions": {
"some-webhook": {
"webhook": {
"scheme": "http",
"host": "some_host",
"port": some_port,
"method": "post",
"params": {}, <-- this is added by ES
"path": "/some/path",
"headers": {
"Cache-Control": "no-cache",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
"body": "some JSON data"
}
}
}
}
```
The problem is that the webhook then tries to access the URL `http://some_host:some_port/some/path?`, with a question mark, as if URL parameters would follow. This makes my web server respond with a 404 error.
(Just to be clear, the goal is to `POST` some data to the URL `http://some_host:some_port/some/path` - without the question mark).
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I'm using version 6.1.1.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-watch-with-webhook-without-params-fails/128534/2 "2018-04-18T13:11:19Z")
This is a bug on the watcher side and is fixed in 6.2.4.
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### Author:  [@dandrestor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dandrestor)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-watch-with-webhook-without-params-fails/128534/3 "2018-04-19T07:48:29Z")
Thanks! Do you have a link to the issue on GitHub?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-watch-with-webhook-without-params-fails/128534/4 "2018-04-19T07:49:52Z")
Unfortunately not, because the code of x-pack is not yet open. From 6.3.0 onwards we will have this though!
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### Author:  [@dandrestor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dandrestor)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-watch-with-webhook-without-params-fails/128534/5 "2018-04-19T08:08:30Z")
Oh, right, I forgot that. Many thanks, Alexander!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-watch-with-webhook-without-params-fails/128534/6 "2018-05-17T08:08:43Z")
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