# ES Watcher Action failed to execute

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-watcher-action-failed-to-execute/210142>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-watcher-action-failed-to-execute/210142 "2019-12-02T09:12:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dinesh\_Krishnan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dinesh_krishnan/32/47291_2.png) [@Dinesh\_Krishnan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dinesh_Krishnan)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-watcher-action-failed-to-execute/210142/1 "2019-12-02T09:12:30Z")

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We have enabled Watcher Alert for Cluster Health with webhook to create incident in Servicenow  
Action it failed to execute

type": "connect\_timeout\_exception",  
"reason": "Connect to XXXXXXXXX:XXXX [XXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXX] failed: connect timed out",  
"caused\_by": {  
"type": "socket\_timeout\_exception",  
"reason": "connect timed out"  
}  
},  
"http": {  
"request": {  
"host": "XXXXXXX",  
"port": XXXX,  
"scheme": "https",  
"method": "get",  
"path": "/\_cluster/health",  
"auth": {  
"basic": {  
"username": "XXXXXXXXXX",  
"password": "::es\_redacted::"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
},  
"actions":   
},  
"messages": [  
"failed to execute watch input"  
]  
}

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**Author:** ![alisongoryachev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alisongoryachev/32/111352_2.png) [@alisongoryachev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alisongoryachev)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-watcher-action-failed-to-execute/210142/2 "2019-12-19T14:38:14Z")

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Hi @Dinesh_Krishnan! Are you able to ping the host from the machine that the watcher is running on?

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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:** [January 16, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-watcher-action-failed-to-execute/210142/3 "2020-01-16T14:38:23Z")

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