# Does watcher support EQL or KQL or eSQL? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [September 4, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-watcher-support-eql-or-kql-or-esql/247596 "2020-09-04T20:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kelk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kelk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kelk)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-watcher-support-eql-or-kql-or-esql/247596/1 "2020-09-04T20:20:45Z")
Does watcher support EQL or SQL type syntax? it is too complex to understand DSL if someone else have written it in watcher and it recurses on and on ☹ in DSL if watcher doesn't support a simplified language, What is the strategy of running searches in scheduled manner in ELK? will this be watcher or any other methods? I can see the new SIEM modules have EQL formatted search, just checking is that kind of functionality available for watcher? ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-watcher-support-eql-or-kql-or-esql/247596/2 "2020-09-04T21:04:51Z")
That is not a logstash question. Try moving it to the Elasticsearch forum instead of here. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-watcher-support-eql-or-kql-or-esql/247596/3 "2020-10-02T21:04:51Z")
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