# Elasticsearch watcher to send Prediction data

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-watcher-to-send-prediction-data/154004
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [October 25, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-watcher-to-send-prediction-data/154004 "2018-10-25T12:55:43Z")
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### Author: ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-watcher-to-send-prediction-data/154004/4 "2018-10-26T16:08:24Z")

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For forecasts, you do NOT want to use `anomaly_score` as the thing you're reporting on. Instead, use `forecast_prediction `. Please reference this other thread:

> [@Export forecast data](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-forecast-data/124875/2):
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> Hi Oscar, all forecast results are written back to the result index of the job, that is default the shared index: .ml-anomalies-shared but you can also use a dedicated index. Therefore you can access all results via search, e.g. GET .ml-anomalies-shared/\_search { "query": { "bool": { "filter": [ { "query\_string": { "query": "result\_type:model\_forecast" } }, { "query\_string": { "query": "job\_id:n1" …

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