# 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: ![sahilarora0928](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@sahilarora0928](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahilarora0928)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-watcher-please-wait-for-the-cluster-to-become-ready-or-try-to-start-watcher-manully/61669/7 "2016-09-28T11:36:25Z")

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Running cat API means this ([http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices?v](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v) ) right ? After running this I got the the health status of every index as yellow .

A small snapshot of that is here.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/e/ebc7e163b589aaa33cfa2f09314a9519eebfe006.png)

Is this correct or shall i delete all the indices and start fresh ..

Also please share the link to previous blog post where you have mentioned about this all. I couldnt find it.

Please let me know .

Thanks.

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