# Search command

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-command/121581>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [February 27, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-command/121581 "2018-02-27T02:35:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Pororo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pororo/32/27711_2.png) [@Pororo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pororo)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-command/121581/1 "2018-02-27T02:35:13Z")

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This is my watcher setting.

```
PUT _xpack/watcher/watch/EmailTest
{
  "trigger" : {
    "schedule" : {
      "interval" : "1m"
    }
  },
  "input" : {
    "search" : {
      "query" : {
        "bool" : {
          "filter" : {
            "range" : {
              "@timestamp": {
                "from": "now-1m",
                "to": "now"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "condition" : {
    "compare" :{
      "ctx.payload.hits.total": {
        "gt": 20
      }
    }
  },
  "actions" : {
    "email_admin" : {
      "email" : {
        "from" : "good456@gmail.com",
        "to" : "good123@gmail.com",
        "subject" : "Error Monitoring Report",
        "priority" : "high"
      }
    }
  }
}

```

When I run it, it pops up the error "reason": "could not parse [search] input for watch [alphaEmailTest]. unexpected token [START\_OBJECT]"

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-command/121581/2 "2018-02-27T12:49:43Z")

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there is a `request` field missing, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/6.2/input-search.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/6.2/input-search.html)

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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:** [March 27, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-command/121581/3 "2018-03-27T12:49:44Z")

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