# Is watchers query fields similar to elasticsearch or is it different

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-watchers-query-fields-similar-to-elasticsearch-or-is-it-different/56104>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [July 21, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-watchers-query-fields-similar-to-elasticsearch-or-is-it-different/56104 "2016-07-21T13:58:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Bharath\_karnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@Bharath\_karnam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bharath_karnam)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-watchers-query-fields-similar-to-elasticsearch-or-is-it-different/56104/1 "2016-07-21T13:58:30Z")

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I'm using watcher, the reason I ask this is because both are different APIs but the field looks pretty much similar  
GET /\_search  
{  
"query": {  
"bool": {  
"should": [  
{ "match": { "title": "War and Peace" }},  
{ "match": { "author": "Leo Tolstoy" }}  
]  
}  
}  
}

Watcher  
input" : {  
"search" : {  
"request" : {  
"indices" : ["logs"],  
"types" : ["event"],  
"body" : {  
"query" : { "match\_all" : {}}  
}  
}  
}  
}  
My question is if I pass the query similar to elasticsearch using watcher API is it correct or it will not work?

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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:** [July 22, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-watchers-query-fields-similar-to-elasticsearch-or-is-it-different/56104/2 "2016-07-22T09:46:34Z")

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Hey,

you can just pass the query inside of the `body` object and it will work. See the [search input documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/2.3/input.html#input-search)

--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, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-watchers-query-fields-similar-to-elasticsearch-or-is-it-different/56104/3 "2017-07-06T13:44:21Z")

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