# Is it possible to index multiple results from a watch as separate documents?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-index-multiple-results-from-a-watch-as-separate-documents/44731>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-index-multiple-results-from-a-watch-as-separate-documents/44731 "2016-03-17T16:13:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanFelton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@DanFelton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DanFelton)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-index-multiple-results-from-a-watch-as-separate-documents/44731/1 "2016-03-17T16:13:19Z")

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At the moment, a watch I'm working on often has multiple hits in a fields called hits.hits, as part of one document indexed in the action.

I'd ideally like to have a document per hit, but I'm not sure if that's possible?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-index-multiple-results-from-a-watch-as-separate-documents/44731/2 "2016-03-17T23:00:59Z")

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Hey Dan,

you might want to check out the [multi document support](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/current/actions.html#anatomy-actions-index-multi-doc-support) in the index action, in combination in with a transform.

Hope this helps.

--Alex

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-index-multiple-results-from-a-watch-as-separate-documents/44731/3 "2017-07-06T13:46:14Z")

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