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

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-confirmation-we-cannot-use-the-watcher-to-just-generate-reports/343728>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-reporting\
**Created:** [September 25, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-confirmation-we-cannot-use-the-watcher-to-just-generate-reports/343728 "2023-09-25T09:21:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimBosman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timbosman/32/84120_2.png) [@TimBosman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimBosman)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-confirmation-we-cannot-use-the-watcher-to-just-generate-reports/343728/2 "2023-10-03T09:19:12Z")

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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?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-watcher-aggs-in-json-format-into-a-table-automatically/247623)

I hope that helps,

Tim

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