# Getting error while installing watcher plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-watcher-plugin/214011>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 7, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-watcher-plugin/214011 "2020-01-07T09:21:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ppantang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@ppantang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppantang)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-watcher-plugin/214011/1 "2020-01-07T09:21:54Z")

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We are getting this issue while installing watcher plug in  
[root@kibana-es-master-0 elasticsearch]# bin/elasticsearch-plugin install file:///tmp/watcher-2.4.6.zip  
-\> Downloading file:///tmp/watcher-2.4.6.zip  
[=================================================] 100%??  
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown properties in plugin descriptor: [jvm, site, isolated]  
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginInfo.readFromProperties(PluginInfo.java:240)  
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.loadPluginInfo(InstallPluginCommand.java:592)  
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.installPlugin(InstallPluginCommand.java:717)  
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.install(InstallPluginCommand.java:641)  
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:225)  
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:210)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:79)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)  
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginCli.main(PluginCli.java:48)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-watcher-plugin/214011/2 "2020-02-04T09:24:41Z")

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