# Limit Kibana watcher emails

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-kibana-watcher-emails/378466
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 23, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-kibana-watcher-emails/378466 "2025-05-23T09:41:38Z")
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### Author: ![hofrichterovak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@hofrichterovak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hofrichterovak)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-kibana-watcher-emails/378466/1 "2025-05-23T09:41:38Z")

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Hello,

I would like to ask about the Kibana watcher. When the watcher conditions are met, an email is sent.

Is there any way to limit the maximum number of emails?

I would like to run the watcher every 30 minutes, but limit the maximum number of emails sent per day to 3. Is it possible? Now I have 48 sent emails.

Thank you.

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### Author: ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-kibana-watcher-emails/378466/2 "2025-05-23T09:59:32Z")

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Hello @hofrichterovak ,

Yes it is possible.

We can use `"throttle_period": "15m"`

> **[Actions | Elastic Docs](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/alerts-cases/watcher/actions#actions-ack-throttle)**
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> When a watch’s condition is met, its actions are executed unless it is being throttled. A watch can perform multiple actions. The actions are executed...

Your Watcher executes every 30 minutes , if you add throttle period as 3h, once it matches and alerts (send email) for next 3h it will execute but not perform the action.

Thanks!!