# How to watch the watchers?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-watch-the-watchers/265084>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 22, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-watch-the-watchers/265084 "2021-02-22T15:04:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![anmmok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@anmmok](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anmmok)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-watch-the-watchers/265084/1 "2021-02-22T15:04:10Z")

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Is there a simple way to create a kind of dashboard or simple an index to track the execution history of the watchers as well as the watcher setup?

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**Author:** ![Iker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iker/32/91708_2.png) [@Iker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Iker)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-watch-the-watchers/265084/2 "2021-02-22T17:14:29Z")

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Yes; first be aware of the ILM and Template for the watchers, by default they are deleted automatically after 7 days. For the watcher execution, create a Kibana Index with the index pattern ".watch" (Enable "Include system and hidden indices"):

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/6/d60ff34fdbac512208b8b27cc32082eec4d694b9.png)

Then you could work your way to a very complete dashboard, as an advice, include metadata categories in your watchers to better organize and filter:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/5/b529d08d516413598591f2dbafe20cf11d51afed.png)

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**Author:** ![anmmok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@anmmok](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anmmok)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-watch-the-watchers/265084/3 "2021-02-23T00:50:36Z")

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@Iker Thank you! That's is exactly, what I need!

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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 23, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-watch-the-watchers/265084/4 "2021-03-23T00:51:08Z")

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