# How can i send an alerting email by watcher successsfully? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [December 14, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-send-an-alerting-email-by-watcher-successsfully/111672 "2017-12-14T01:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![isummersing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ea666f/32.png) [@isummersing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/isummersing)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-send-an-alerting-email-by-watcher-successsfully/111672/1 "2017-12-14T01:36:45Z")
I am new for elastic, and i want to use watcher for alerting. I have tried many times and they were failed, i think i am not really understand how the watcher run and how to use it. anyone who can teach me how to use it or give me a useful link? thanks a lot. ---
**Author:** ![mujtabahussain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mujtabahussain/32/17514_2.png) [@mujtabahussain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mujtabahussain)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-send-an-alerting-email-by-watcher-successsfully/111672/2 "2017-12-14T02:29:21Z")
Hey! 🙂 A few things first. Describe, as best as you can: - What did you want to achieve with Watcher? - How did you install it? - What did you install it on? - What errors did you get when you installed it? - What have you tried to remove those errors and get it working? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-send-an-alerting-email-by-watcher-successsfully/111672/3 "2018-01-11T02:29:29Z")
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