# How to schedule rule alert only on weekday and specific time

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-schedule-rule-alert-only-on-weekday-and-specific-time/296145
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [February 3, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-schedule-rule-alert-only-on-weekday-and-specific-time/296145 "2022-02-03T05:43:30Z")
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### Author: ![ss02072805](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@ss02072805](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ss02072805)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-schedule-rule-alert-only-on-weekday-and-specific-time/296145/1 "2022-02-03T05:43:30Z")

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Assume, in the Kibana Alerting Framework. this configuration set up  
for metrics reported with that process.name  
Alert Type : Metric Threshold,

on this configuration how to step up alerting only on weekday and specific time duration in weekday

 ![Screen Shot 2021-07-12 at 4.37.06 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/8/88d0a0e8b7ea2155179151105279aa4153d83b0e.png)  
 ![Screen Shot 2021-07-12 at 4.37.21 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/5/9588992c70d1002d03aecb96a2d239989dff287e.png)

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### Author: ![Julien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/julien/32/19688_2.png) [@Julien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Julien)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-schedule-rule-alert-only-on-weekday-and-specific-time/296145/2 "2022-02-04T19:40:48Z")

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At the moment this is not possible with kibana alerting, only possible workaround is to use Elasticsearch watcher as mentioned in [this issue](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/50272)

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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: [March 10, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-schedule-rule-alert-only-on-weekday-and-specific-time/296145/4 "2022-03-10T12:46:49Z")

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