# Limit watcher\_admin role to certain watches

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-watcher-admin-role-to-certain-watches/374635>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [February 17, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-watcher-admin-role-to-certain-watches/374635 "2025-02-17T14:30:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Nicoletta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Nicoletta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nicoletta)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-watcher-admin-role-to-certain-watches/374635/1 "2025-02-17T14:30:18Z")

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Hi,

I was wondering if there's a way to give a user the possibility to create and manage only certain watches, for example all the watches that have a defined prefix.

With the builtin role watcher\_admin (or the cluster privilege manage\_watcher) it seems I can only give privileges to manage all watcher, not a subset of them.

Thanks,  
Nicoletta

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-watcher-admin-role-to-certain-watches/374635/2 "2025-02-18T02:14:41Z")

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No, that is not possible

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**Author:** ![Nicoletta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Nicoletta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nicoletta)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-watcher-admin-role-to-certain-watches/374635/3 "2025-02-18T09:44:03Z")

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Thanks