Looking for confirmation: we cannot use the watcher to 'just' generate reports

[mpjjonker (Michel Jonker)]

My use case is to schedule reporting but NOT to e-mail them as attachment.

On this page, there is an option to call the API using a script, of course we can do this, but than we have to find a scheduling solution outside Elastic.

Automatically generate reports | Kibana Guide [8.10] | Elastic

In the list of actions, there is no 'create report' action.

Watcher actions | Elasticsearch Guide [8.10] | Elastic

The confirmation I am looking for is:
The only way to achieve this, is by using an external scheduling solution and make the api calls from there.

[TimBosman]

Hey Michel,

It is not possible to add it to the email contents from creating a CSV report. The documentation says Reporting is integrated with Watcher only as an email attachment type..
What you might want to do is something that is described here: How to parse Watcher/Aggs in JSON format into a table automatically?

I hope that helps,

Tim