# Query Regarding Watcher on ES 6.7

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-regarding-watcher-on-es-6-7/176800>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** license\
**Created:** [April 14, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-regarding-watcher-on-es-6-7/176800 "2019-04-14T20:45:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![venusf1ytrap](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/venusf1ytrap/32/44104_2.png) [@venusf1ytrap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venusf1ytrap)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-regarding-watcher-on-es-6-7/176800/1 "2019-04-14T20:45:43Z")

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Hello All,

I'm currently using ES 6.7 stack (Basic License) & i wanted to understand if i'd need a paid subscription of X-Pack to be able to use Watcher for alerting purposes ? Is watcher included as a part of Basic / OpenSource version or is it for paid subscribers only ? If it's free, how do i go about enabling watcher support for ES 6.7 ? I'd really like to see Watcher or some sort of native alerting feature in Kibana. I feel this key feature is missing in Kibana when compared to Grafana.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-regarding-watcher-on-es-6-7/176800/2 "2019-04-14T22:14:04Z")

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You can see what the various license levels contain here - [https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions/](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions/)

A basic license doesn't cover Alerting unfortunately. But check out Elastic Cloud, it's pretty cheap and you get access to _all_ of the non-free functionality.

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**Author:** ![venusf1ytrap](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/venusf1ytrap/32/44104_2.png) [@venusf1ytrap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venusf1ytrap)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-regarding-watcher-on-es-6-7/176800/3 "2019-04-17T15:41:01Z")

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Thanks Warkolm for the reply. Its a difficult business case to make to move to Elastic Cloud for a basic feature like alerting, which comes out of the box in Grafana :-). Is there any future plan of Kibana supporting Alerting natively, instead of relying on Sentil or ElastAlert etc? Thanks for your time in replying.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-regarding-watcher-on-es-6-7/176800/4 "2019-04-17T21:15:48Z")

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> [@venusf1ytrap](#):
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> Its a difficult business case to make to move to Elastic Cloud for a basic feature like alerting, which comes out of the box in Grafana

It's a lot more than that;

- Canvas
- Security
- Maps
- Uptime and Infra apps
- Machine Learning
- Graph
- Automated backups
- APM

and heaps more.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-regarding-watcher-on-es-6-7/176800/5 "2019-05-15T21:15:49Z")

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