Failed migration of system indices for the watcher and watcher not firing after update

continuation of Failed migration of system indices (.triggered_watches) with Upgrade Assistant using v7.17.14

Summary, upgrade assistant was giving an error for the watcher when migrating system indices.

I tried deleting the index template but the error persists.

Even when I try getting the index template I get a 404.

When I send this request GET /_index_template/.watches I get

{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "resource_not_found_exception",
        "reason" : "index template matching [.watches] not found"
      }
    ],
    "type" : "resource_not_found_exception",
    "reason" : "index template matching [.watches] not found"
  },
  "status" : 404
}

After that I decided to delete all the watchers since they were not getting triggered anymore anyway since I updated to version 7.17.14 from version 7.12.0

[instance-0000000013] unable to create new index [.watches-reindexed-for-8] from feature [watcher] because it would match legacy templates [[.watches]]
[instance-0000000013] task [upgrade-system-indices] failed with an exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: unable to create new index [.watches-reindexed-for-8] because it would match legacy templates [[.watches]] at org.elasticsearch.upgrades.SystemIndexMigrator.migrateSingleIndex(SystemIndexMigrator.java:418) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.upgrades.SystemIndexMigrator.lambda$run$3(SystemIndexMigrator.java:213) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.upgrades.SystemIndexMigrator.lambda$updateTaskState$11(SystemIndexMigrator.java:359) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$1.onResponse(ActionListener.java:136) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$MappedActionListener.onResponse(ActionListener.java:101) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.support.ContextPreservingActionListener.onResponse(ContextPreservingActionListener.java:31) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$1.onResponse(TransportAction.java:88) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$1.onResponse(TransportAction.java:82) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.support.ContextPreservingActionListener.onResponse(ContextPreservingActionListener.java:31) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.action.filter.SecurityActionFilter.lambda$applyInternal$2(SecurityActionFilter.java:192) [x-pack-security-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$DelegatingFailureActionListener.onResponse(ActionListener.java:219) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$DelegatingActionListener.onResponse(ActionListener.java:186) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$MappedActionListener.onResponse(ActionListener.java:101) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.persistent.PersistentTasksClusterService$4.clusterStateProcessed(PersistentTasksClusterService.java:267) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService$SafeClusterStateTaskListener.clusterStateProcessed(MasterService.java:645) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService$TaskOutputs.lambda$processedDifferentClusterState$1(MasterService.java:517) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1596) [?:?] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService$TaskOutputs.processedDifferentClusterState(MasterService.java:517) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService.onPublicationSuccess(MasterService.java:322) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService.publish(MasterService.java:314) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService.runTasks(MasterService.java:287) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService.access$100(MasterService.java:63) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService$Batcher.run(MasterService.java:170) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.TaskBatcher.runIfNotProcessed(TaskBatcher.java:146) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.TaskBatcher$BatchedTask.run(TaskBatcher.java:202) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:718) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:262) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:225) [elasticsearch-7.17.14.jar:7.17.14] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144) [?:?] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642) [?:?] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583) [?:?]

Anything I can do now?

I think I see the problem. The error message indicates that .watches is a deprecated legacy template, so you need to get or delete the template using different endpoints. (Docs: Get index template (legacy), Delete Index Template (legacy))

# view the template
GET /_template/.watches

# delete the template
DELETE /_template/.watches

I hope this helps you proceed with the upgrade.

It worked! Thank you very much!

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