# Protect Watchers from being accidently deleted
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/protect-watchers-from-being-accidently-deleted/201916
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/protect-watchers-from-being-accidently-deleted/201916 "2019-10-02T09:01:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ahmad\_Hawasli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ahmad_Hawasli)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/protect-watchers-from-being-accidently-deleted/201916/1 "2019-10-02T09:01:58Z")
I have implemented Kibana spaces. Users are allowed only to see their corrsoponding indices. In addition, some users from different spaces have a manage\_watchers privilege set.
My questions is: Is there a way to prevent users from deleting/editing other users watchers?
Thanks
Ahmad
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/protect-watchers-from-being-accidently-deleted/201916/2 "2019-10-02T09:08:06Z")
Hey,
right now, any user with the corresponding `manage_watcher` privilege can add/delete any watcher (it's always ensured that the watch itself only runs with the permission of the user who stored the watch or is executing it). However there is no more granular mechanism to prevent watch modification in the moment.
Feel free to open an issue for this though.
--Alex
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/protect-watchers-from-being-accidently-deleted/201916/3 "2019-10-30T09:08:06Z")
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