# Slack Configurations on Elastic Cloud

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-configurations-on-elastic-cloud/90883>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 26, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-configurations-on-elastic-cloud/90883 "2017-06-26T23:23:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![nileshgattani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@nileshgattani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nileshgattani)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-configurations-on-elastic-cloud/90883/1 "2017-06-26T23:23:16Z")

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Hi there,

I was trying to hook up slack with watcher on our elastic cloud instance and have run into some issues.

Here is how I updated elasticsearch.yml :

```
xpack.notification.slack:
  account:
    monitoring:
      url: <webhook url>

```

And here is how created a new watch -  
"actions": {  
"notify-slack": {  
"throttle\_period" : "5m",  
"slack": {  
"account" : "monitoring",  
"message": {  
"to" : ["the channel"] ,  
"text" : "There are {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} documents in your index. Threshold is 10."}  
}  
}  
}

But I keep getting this error -

`Watcher: [illegal_argument_exception] no account found for name: [monitoring]`

Any clue?

Thanks  
-Nilesh

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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:** [June 26, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-configurations-on-elastic-cloud/90883/2 "2017-06-26T23:34:45Z")

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If you'd like some direct support from us, which as an Elastic Cloud user you have, them check out [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/now-live-new-elastic-cloud-standard-support/84161](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/now-live-new-elastic-cloud-standard-support/84161)

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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:** [July 24, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-configurations-on-elastic-cloud/90883/3 "2017-07-24T23:34:52Z")

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