# Kibana Alerts - Is there a way to schedule rule execution at a specific time daily?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-is-there-a-way-to-schedule-rule-execution-at-a-specific-time-daily/386822
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 12, 2026, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-is-there-a-way-to-schedule-rule-execution-at-a-specific-time-daily/386822 "2026-06-12T06:34:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2026, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-is-there-a-way-to-schedule-rule-execution-at-a-specific-time-daily/386822/1 "2026-06-12T06:34:26Z")
Hello Community,
I am working with Kibana Alerting rules and have a use case where I need an alert to execute at a **fixed time every day** (e.g., every day at 03:00 UTC), rather than on a recurring interval like "every 1 hour" or "every 24 hours from whenever it was first enabled."
The interval-based scheduling in Kibana rules means the execution time drifts depending on when the rule was created or last enabled which doesn't work for our requirement.
My questions:
1. Is there any native way in **Kibana Alerting** (Stack Alerts, Security Rules, or otherwise) to schedule a rule at a **specific clock time** (cron-style) rather than a fixed interval?
2. If not, is **Elasticsearch Watcher** currently the only supported path for time-of-day-specific scheduled execution?
3. Are there any workarounds within Kibana?
Any ElasticStack version 8.x , 9.x ?
Thanks in advance!!
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-is-there-a-way-to-schedule-rule-execution-at-a-specific-time-daily/386822/2 "2026-06-12T13:05:42Z")
> [@Tortoise](#):
>
> 1. Is there any native way in **Kibana Alerting** (Stack Alerts, Security Rules, or otherwise) to schedule a rule at a **specific clock time** (cron-style) rather than a fixed interval?
Unfortunately no, they are only interval based.
> [@Tortoise](#):
>
> 1. If not, is **Elasticsearch Watcher** currently the only supported path for time-of-day-specific scheduled execution?
> 2. Are there any workarounds within Kibana?
If you are on 9.3+ and have an Enterprise license you can use the new Workflow features to do scheduled actions, like run an ESQL query for example.
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### Author:  [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerts-is-there-a-way-to-schedule-rule-execution-at-a-specific-time-daily/386822/3 "2026-06-12T13:27:51Z")
Thank you @leandrojmp