# Failed to start watcher. please wait for the cluster to become ready or try to start Watcher manully

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-watcher-please-wait-for-the-cluster-to-become-ready-or-try-to-start-watcher-manully/61669
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [September 28, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-watcher-please-wait-for-the-cluster-to-become-ready-or-try-to-start-watcher-manully/61669 "2016-09-28T07:38:34Z")
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### Author: ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-watcher-please-wait-for-the-cluster-to-become-ready-or-try-to-start-watcher-manully/61669/6 "2016-09-28T09:46:07Z")

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Hey,

it does not look to me as if your cluster recovered fully and back to a good state, as it cannot write into the watch history index. Did you run the cat API I mentioned in a previous blog post?

On top of that, it seems you cannot reach gmail from your network.

--Alex

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