# Extract certain watcher fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-certain-watcher-fields/227751
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-certain-watcher-fields/227751 "2020-04-13T09:41:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Alexandros888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandros888)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-certain-watcher-fields/227751/1 "2020-04-13T09:41:24Z")
Hello,
In this elastic search link: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/2.3/input.html#input-search](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/2.3/input.html#input-search) it specifies how to get a field value from a particular hit and it provides an example if we want to get the value of message field from the first hit (see image below).
That is clear. Nevertheless if i do not want the message field only from the first hit but i want the message field from all hits what should i enter instead of 0 ??? (see image again number 2)
Thank you
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-certain-watcher-fields/227751/2 "2020-04-13T16:39:12Z")
@spinscale can shed some light here when he gets a chance to see this.
Thanks
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-certain-watcher-fields/227751/3 "2020-04-15T12:52:16Z")
I suppose you're talking about accessing this field in a condition. You can loop through the results doing something like
```auto
for (int i = 0; i < ctx.payload.hits.hits.size() ; i++) {
def message = ctx.payload.hits.hits[i]._source.message;
// check something here...
}
```
this was on top of my head and untested, but I hope you get the idea.
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### Author:  [@Alexandros888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandros888)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-certain-watcher-fields/227751/4 "2020-04-15T15:20:14Z")
Hello Alexander,
Thank you for your response. What i want to do is described in more detail in an another ticket of mine which can be traced here: [Make the email body of my alert easier to read](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-the-email-body-of-my-alert-easier-to-read/224773/5) .If you can provide a possible solution there it would be perfect.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-certain-watcher-fields/227751/5 "2020-05-13T15:29:56Z")
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