Ahoy hoy everyone, I am unable to create a Watch both using Sense and the REST API as well as using elasticsearch-watcher-py - somehow I can't seem to get the search request right. I've also posted a question on stackoverflow regarding the issue. I'm using the following code in elasticsearch-watc…

Problem creating Watch - unable to parse [search] input

skearns (Steve Kearns) August 11, 2016, 12:09pm 2

Hi Simon,

It looks like there may just be a typo - The input search type is looking for request rather than requests.

You can see an example here:

Let me know if that does the trick!

Thanks,
Steve

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