# Elasticsearch enable watcher - email notifications
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794 "2021-09-09T14:39:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@dominbdg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dominbdg)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/1 "2021-09-09T14:39:03Z")
Hello,
I would like to ask You for help,
I have one-node elasticsearch with kibana on kubernetes.
I need to have on kibana watcher email notifications enabled but don't know how to do from elasticsearch yml file.
Right now I have emails option greyed from kibana side with coment "configure elasticsearch.yml"
Can someone help me ?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/2 "2021-09-10T00:07:04Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃
Have you been over [Watcher settings in Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [7.14] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/notification-settings.html)?
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### Author:  [@dominbdg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dominbdg)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/3 "2021-09-10T09:43:00Z")
hello, warkolm
thanks for reply, yes I saw this website but have small question,
as I uderstand this section :
```auto
"actions" : {
"send_email" : {
"email" : {
"to" : "username@example.org",
"subject" : "Watcher Notification",
"body" : "{{ctx.payload.hits.total}} error logs found"
}
}
}
```
should be only included in elasticsearch.yml and
xpack.watcher.enabled yes ?
I have on kibana also 4 spaces - how can I set options only for one space ?
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### Author:  [@dominbdg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dominbdg)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/4 "2021-09-10T22:20:12Z")
Can someone help me with this email notifications from elasticsearch yml file ?
I addedd section in elasticsearch yml file
```auto
xpack.watcher.enabled: true
xpack.notification.email.account:
gmail_account:
profile: gmail
smtp:
auth: true
starttls.enable: true
host: smtp.gmail.com
port: 587
user: dominbdg
```
but the problem is that - elasticsearch don't want to start with this configuration.
when - from documentation try to launch :
```auto
bin/elasticsearch-keystore add xpack.notification.email.account.gmail_account.smtp.secure_password
```
I'm getting error:
```auto
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.snakeyaml.error.MarkedYAMLException: mapping values are not allowed here
in 'reader', line 87, column 11:
smtp:
```
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/5 "2021-09-10T23:10:36Z")
Most likely You have a yml syntax / formatting error in that section.. either in it or after it.. that's what the error indicates.
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### Author:  [@dominbdg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dominbdg)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/6 "2021-09-10T23:13:56Z")
@stephenb
Thanks for that - You were right - there was an improper formatting.
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### Author:  [@dominbdg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dominbdg)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/7 "2021-09-10T23:23:05Z")
I have also a question - we have local openrelay in my company. Is it possible to use it or I have to have regular mail account for watcher emails ?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/8 "2021-09-10T23:52:44Z")
I don't know... Try it 😉
It expects an SMTP endpoint.
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### Author:  [@dominbdg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dominbdg)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/9 "2021-09-12T18:13:02Z")
@stephenb - You are right - using normal email server works.
I have a small question - when I need to use ssl - how to do it ?
I have below configuration:
```auto
xpack.notification.email.account:
gmail_account:
profile: gmail
smtp:
auth: true
starttls.enable: true
host: smtp.gmail.com
port: 587
user:
```
is it possible that instead of starttls.enable I can use ssl.enable and change port to ssl ?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/10 "2021-09-12T18:30:02Z")
I do not see `ssl.enable` as a valid option in the docs. Perhaps just set to the ssl port and try it.
In the docs [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.14/notification-settings.html#email-notification-settings)
If it is a self signed certificate you may need to add additional settings
Curious why not use
`starttls.enable: true`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-enable-watcher-email-notifications/283794/11 "2021-10-10T18:30:30Z")
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