# Shield blocking Watcher to query in Elasticsearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-blocking-watcher-to-query-in-elasticsearch/40028
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-blocking-watcher-to-query-in-elasticsearch/40028 "2016-01-25T13:55:20Z")
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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: [January 25, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-blocking-watcher-to-query-in-elasticsearch/40028/2 "2016-01-25T14:50:37Z")

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Hey,

you need to supply authentication information, when executing the http request pointing to `/_cluster/health`.

See the `auth` setting for the HTTP input. See [the http input documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/current/input.html#input-http-auth-basic-example)

--Alex

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