# GUI available for watcher?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gui-available-for-watcher/52044>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [June 7, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gui-available-for-watcher/52044 "2016-06-07T09:36:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![asp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gui-available-for-watcher/52044/1 "2016-06-07T09:36:59Z")

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Hi,

we are thinking about using watcher. Are the alerts needed to be configured / written by configuration files, or is a GUI available / included, which allows less experienced users to create them.

Thanks in advance  
Andreas

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gui-available-for-watcher/52044/2 "2016-06-07T09:57:07Z")

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At the moment you can use Sense - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/sense/current/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/sense/current/index.html) - but there is no dedicated UI.

I'm not sure on the roadmap for this one though sorry.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gui-available-for-watcher/52044/3 "2017-07-06T13:45:07Z")

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