# Its always necesary to use throttling in watcher alerts?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/its-always-necesary-to-use-throttling-in-watcher-alerts/263409>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [February 5, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/its-always-necesary-to-use-throttling-in-watcher-alerts/263409 "2021-02-05T14:46:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![ElasticLiver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticliver/32/64869_2.png) [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/its-always-necesary-to-use-throttling-in-watcher-alerts/263409/1 "2021-02-05T14:46:11Z")

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Hi, Im using this schedule in my watcher alert

```auto
  "trigger" : {
    "schedule" : {
      "daily" : { "at" : "17:00" }
    }
  }

```

so I was wandering if it is necesary to use throttling in the watchers.

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/its-always-necesary-to-use-throttling-in-watcher-alerts/263409/2 "2021-02-09T11:42:01Z")

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If it's not a really long query I don't see a reason to use it when you run it only once a day.

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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 9, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/its-always-necesary-to-use-throttling-in-watcher-alerts/263409/3 "2021-03-09T11:42:07Z")

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