# Simple Watcher Webhook **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 27, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-watcher-webhook/201471 "2019-09-27T21:39:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gytaco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gytaco/32/46439_2.png) [@gytaco](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gytaco)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-watcher-webhook/201471/1 "2019-09-27T21:39:05Z")
Hi Team I am using Elastic Hosted and trying to create a simple Watcher Webhook alert and I cannot find an example anywhere of using the kibana interface of a simple Webhook using the UI. Can anyone point me in the direction of this? The documentation refers to more complex Json. I assume I am missing something obvious but there are no examples or samples of using the kibana Watcher webhook UI. I want to see if I can train some of the team to be able to customise easily but there are not examples and no matter what I try I get the following error. [instance-0000000002] failed to execute action [_inlined_/webhook\_1] java.net.UnknownHostException: https: Name or service not known at java.net.Inet4AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method) ~[?:?] at java.net.InetAddress$PlatformNameService.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:929) ~[?:?] at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1515) ~[?:?] at java.net.InetAddress$NameServiceAddresses.get(InetAddress.java:848) ~[?:?] at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1505) ~[?:?] at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1364) ~[?:?] at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1298) ~[?:?] at org.apache.http.impl.conn.SystemDefaultDnsResolver.resolve(SystemDefaultDnsResolver.java:45) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:112) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:374) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:393) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:236) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:186) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:72) ~[httpclient-4.5.8.jar:4.5.8] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.common.http.HttpClient.lambda$execute$1(HttpClient.java:242) ~[?:?] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.common.socket.SocketAccess.doPrivileged(SocketAccess.java:32) ~[x-pack-core-7.3.1.jar:7.3.1] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.common.http.HttpClient.execute(HttpClient.java:242) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.actions.webhook.ExecutableWebhookAction.execute(ExecutableWebhookAction.java:42) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.watcher.actions.ActionWrapper.execute(ActionWrapper.java:163) [x-pack-core-7.3.1.jar:7.3.1] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.execution.ExecutionService.executeInner(ExecutionService.java:516) [x-pack-watcher-7.3.1.jar:7.3.1] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.execution.ExecutionService.execute(ExecutionService.java:309) [x-pack-watcher-7.3.1.jar:7.3.1] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.transport.actions.execute.TransportExecuteWatchAction$1.doRun(TransportExecuteWatchAction.java:159) [x-pack-watcher-7.3.1.jar:7.3.1] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [elasticsearch-7.3.1.jar:7.3.1] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.execution.ExecutionService$WatchExecutionTask.run(ExecutionService.java:605) [x-pack-watcher-7.3.1.jar:7.3.1] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:688) [elasticsearch-7.3.1.jar:7.3.1] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) [?:?] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) [?:?] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) [?:?] ---
**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-watcher-webhook/201471/2 "2019-09-30T16:37:26Z")
Hi Adam, there are a couple possible causes of this error. 1. DNS lookup could have failed. Can you try using the IP address directly instead of the domain-name-based URL? 2. The error also looks like the watch webhook you're trying to execute has `https` specified as the host. Would you mind sharing your webhook configuration, with private details obfuscated? Thanks. CJ ---
**Author:** ![gytaco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gytaco/32/46439_2.png) [@gytaco](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gytaco)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-watcher-webhook/201471/3 "2019-10-02T21:43:13Z")
Hi there Here is my configuration it's a simple zendesk post request. Using basic auth I can make this request with curl so I am assuming I am missing something? Do I need to add anything in xpack? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/1/415cc321260b0e4c44df3c1201e6e85cec448e98.png) ---
**Author:** ![gytaco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gytaco/32/46439_2.png) [@gytaco](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gytaco)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-watcher-webhook/201471/4 "2019-10-08T00:42:31Z")
Hi Hopefully not bugging you but I put the zendesk details in the following reply. ---
**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-watcher-webhook/201471/5 "2019-10-09T16:30:19Z")
Hey Adam, sorry for the late reply. This is a flaw in our current UI, tracked here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/44004](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/44004). The problem is that the "Host" field exposed by the UI does _not_ accept a URI; it only accepts a host. So in this case, it would only accept "[xxx.zendesk.com](http://xxx.zendesk.com)", and it would default to using "http" as the scheme. We need to update the UI with a "Scheme" field so that you can also choose "https". ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-watcher-webhook/201471/6 "2019-11-06T16:30:26Z")
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