# Request.types not working in ECE Watcher
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-types-not-working-in-ece-watcher/148509
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [September 13, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-types-not-working-in-ece-watcher/148509 "2018-09-13T19:43:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@gautu7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gautu7)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-types-not-working-in-ece-watcher/148509/1 "2018-09-13T19:43:27Z")
Hi,
I am trying to execute Watchers which pulls in certain types directly and perform actions it. When I use **types** to specify the type to read like in the example below, it doesn't work, but does work when I remove types, but I do not want to search a whole lot of data unnecessarily. The other work around I did was to match the type in the inner query. Is it different how this works in ECE or am I missing something here?
This doesn't work -
{
"watch" :{
"trigger": {
"schedule": {
"interval": "1m"
}
},
"input": {
"search": {
"request": {
"indices": [
".my-test-\*"
],
"types":["node\_stats"],
"body": {
"size" : 0,
This is the workaround I tried for cluster state since types was not working
```
{
"trigger" : {
"schedule" : { "interval" : "1h" }
},
"input": {
"search": {
"request": {
"indices": ".my-test-*",
"body": {
"query": {
"match": {
"type": "cluster_stats"
}
},
"_source": [
"cluster_state"
],
"sort": [
{
"timestamp": {
"order": "desc"
}
}
],
"size": 1
}
}
}
},
```
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-types-not-working-in-ece-watcher/148509/2 "2018-09-14T11:34:17Z")
with more recent versions (6.0 onwards) you need to put the type filter as part of the query, as newer indices can only cope with a single type.
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### Author:  [@gautu7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gautu7)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-types-not-working-in-ece-watcher/148509/3 "2018-09-14T16:22:56Z")
Is this what you're referring to? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/query-dsl-type-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/query-dsl-type-query.html)
I couldn't quite the above working, so did this to get `node_stats` in the last 2 minutes with the type filter in the query
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match": {
"type": "node\_stats"
}
}
],
"filter": {
"range": {
"timestamp": {
"gte": "now-2m",
"lte": "now"
}
}
}
}
}
}
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-types-not-working-in-ece-watcher/148509/4 "2018-09-17T07:43:17Z")
yes, that was what I was referring to.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-types-not-working-in-ece-watcher/148509/5 "2018-10-15T07:43:17Z")
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