# How to set a time range in an Alert?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-a-time-range-in-an-alert/248743>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-a-time-range-in-an-alert/248743 "2020-09-15T22:26:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![gnumoksha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gnumoksha/32/37220_2.png) [@gnumoksha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gnumoksha)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-a-time-range-in-an-alert/248743/1 "2020-09-15T22:26:04Z")

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Hi. How can I specify a time range in a metric alert? I want to trigger the alarm only if @timestamp is between an interval.

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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:** [September 16, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-a-time-range-in-an-alert/248743/2 "2020-09-16T01:00:05Z")

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[https://github.com/elastic/examples/tree/master/Alerting/Sample%20Watches](https://github.com/elastic/examples/tree/master/Alerting/Sample%20Watches) has some examples.  
But you will want to use a range query - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-range-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-range-query.html)

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**Author:** ![gnumoksha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gnumoksha/32/37220_2.png) [@gnumoksha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gnumoksha)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-a-time-range-in-an-alert/248743/3 "2020-09-28T14:20:44Z")

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Thank you, but I was asking about `metric alerts`, those we create on the page `/app/management/insightsAndAlerting/triggersActions/alerts`.

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**Author:** ![gnumoksha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gnumoksha/32/37220_2.png) [@gnumoksha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gnumoksha)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-a-time-range-in-an-alert/248743/4 "2020-09-28T14:22:37Z")

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Also, I've tried watchers, but it seems my connectors (created under `/app/management/insightsAndAlerting/triggersActions/connectors`) are not available there.

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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 26, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-a-time-range-in-an-alert/248743/5 "2020-10-26T14:22:57Z")

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