# Executing Windows Script within Watch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-windows-script-within-watch/161149
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 17, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-windows-script-within-watch/161149 "2018-12-17T12:58:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@johncam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johncam)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-windows-script-within-watch/161149/1 "2018-12-17T12:58:13Z")
I have a .vbs script that I should like to incorporate as part of a watch, with the alert triggered when the errorlevel exceeds a defined threshold.
Is it possible to execute script files in this fashion, or should I be looking to re-engineer any pre-existing checks scripted like this?
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### Author:  [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-windows-script-within-watch/161149/2 "2018-12-20T20:09:23Z")
Watcher can't execute system scripts. All scripts in Elasticsearch run in a sandboxed environment. There are two provided languages, only one of which (`painless`) will work within a watcher script. You'll need to rewrite your vbs script in painless if you want to execute it from a watch.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-windows-script-within-watch/161149/3 "2019-01-17T20:16:44Z")
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