# Email won't set up for alert **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 24, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/email-wont-set-up-for-alert/149608 "2018-09-24T01:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mlbphilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mlbphilly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mlbphilly)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/email-wont-set-up-for-alert/149608/1 "2018-09-24T01:06:14Z")
This has been a big Pita. In Kibana I just want to set up each Index I have to send an alert to my email. I put my email in the gui set up options already. However, when I try to choose email as an option it will not appear. I want to send an alert to my email for when the memory of data in an index goes above 80%. Xpack has been installed, I have watcher. Can someone please take time to explain this to me like I know nothing. Do I go into Kibana and have to type a Json script? Not really understand why pay for a gui interface if you're going to have to keep resorting back to scripts on the internet. /rant Email for when data use is above 80%. Thank you for any help. ---
**Author:** ![mlbphilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mlbphilly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mlbphilly)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/email-wont-set-up-for-alert/149608/2 "2018-09-24T20:58:38Z")
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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:** [October 22, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/email-wont-set-up-for-alert/149608/3 "2018-10-22T20:58:42Z")
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