# I lose entries when using the Watcher Index Action

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-lose-entries-when-using-the-watcher-index-action/151184>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [October 5, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-lose-entries-when-using-the-watcher-index-action/151184 "2018-10-05T09:40:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![andres-perez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andres-perez/32/136461_2.png) [@andres-perez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andres-perez)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-lose-entries-when-using-the-watcher-index-action/151184/2 "2018-10-08T13:29:07Z")

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Hi,  
I think that I know the cause of your problem:

The search request has a "size" parameter that sets the number of hits to return [Search request parameters](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-body.html#_parameters_4) .  
If omitted, **the default value is 10**.

You can modify this parameter (see the example in [x-pack input search](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/input-search.html) to get only the last result)

Unfortunately, I don't know any elegant, scalable solution other than setting a suitable _magic number_ .

After reading this question: [Watcher index action - how to get all the hits data to index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-index-action-how-to-get-all-the-hits-data-to-index/123174) it seems that:

- The limit is 10000
- It is not a good idea to index a big amount of search results.

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