# How to create a watcher for average response time

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-watcher-for-average-response-time/148230
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 11, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-watcher-for-average-response-time/148230 "2018-09-11T22:41:31Z")
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### Author: ![caleb.king](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@caleb.king](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/caleb.king)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-watcher-for-average-response-time/148230/1 "2018-09-11T22:41:31Z")

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Hi folks!

I am fairly new to ELK coming from Splunk.

Our team would want an alert/watcher to send an email if the `average response time` of our service is greater than X seconds.

Does anyone have a watcher.json example of something similar.  
Thanks

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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: [October 9, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-watcher-for-average-response-time/148230/2 "2018-10-09T22:43:06Z")

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