# Does an elastic watcher action remain in ackable/acked state during its throttle window?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-an-elastic-watcher-action-remain-in-ackable-acked-state-during-its-throttle-window/273985>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [May 25, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-an-elastic-watcher-action-remain-in-ackable-acked-state-during-its-throttle-window/273985 "2021-05-25T19:05:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![pranayparmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@pranayparmar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pranayparmar)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-an-elastic-watcher-action-remain-in-ackable-acked-state-during-its-throttle-window/273985/1 "2021-05-25T19:05:53Z")

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The Elasticsearch documentation does not specify this but would an action remain in the `ackable`/`acked` state if it is throttling until its throttle period end?

I have an action with a 30m throttle period and looking at its watcher-history I noticed that it does not change its state back to `awaits_successful_execution` during its throttle period even though the action condition is not met.

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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:** [June 22, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-an-elastic-watcher-action-remain-in-ackable-acked-state-during-its-throttle-window/273985/2 "2021-06-22T19:06:14Z")

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