### Author:  [@satheeshravir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satheeshravir)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-notifications-not-getting-delivered-16e7af-redirected-from-elastic-cloud-category/73951/1 "2017-02-04T16:31:18Z")
I am [trying.to](http://trying.to) configure slack notifications using X-pack. After hours of playing around with config and help from community, I was able to find the approximately correct config for slack alerts. But still the messages aren't getting delivered to slack channel but I can see entries in .watch-history\* . I have given my configs below. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Please let me know whether any of my config is wrong.
```
PUT _watcher/watch/log_error_watch
{
"trigger" : { "schedule" : { "interval" : "30s" } },
"input" : {
"search" : {
"request" : {
"indices" : ["logs"],
"body" : {
"query" : {
"range" : {
"date" : {
"gt" : "now-1h",
"lt" : "now-2h"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"condition" : {
"compare" : { "ctx.payload.hits.total" : { "gt" : 100000 }}
},
"actions" : {
"notify-slack" : {
"throttle_period" : "5s",
"slack" : {
"message" : {
"to" : ["#elasticsearch"],
"text" : "{{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors indexed in an hour"
}
}
}
}
}
```
User Settings
```
xpack.notification.slack:
account:
monitoring:
url:
message_defaults:
from: x-pack
to: notifications
icon: http://example.com/images/watcher-icon.jpg
attachment:
fallback: "X-Pack Notification"
color: "#36a64f"
title: "X-Pack Notification"
title_link: "https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/index.html"
text: "One of your watches generated this notification."
```
---
### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-notifications-not-getting-delivered-16e7af-redirected-from-elastic-cloud-category/73951/2 "2017-02-04T18:15:50Z")
Would you mind sharing the latest watch history entry or alternatively run the execute watch API for this specific watch and share that output?
Thank you!
---
### Author:  [@satheeshravir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satheeshravir)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-notifications-not-getting-delivered-16e7af-redirected-from-elastic-cloud-category/73951/3 "2017-02-04T18:34:40Z")
```
{
"_index": ".watcher-history-1-2017.02.04",
"_type": "watch_record",
"_id": "log_error_watch_0-2017-02-04T16:25:29.550Z",
"_score": null,
"_source": {
"watch_id": "log_error_watch",
"state": "execution_not_needed",
"trigger_event": {
"type": "schedule",
"triggered_time": "2017-02-04T16:25:29.550Z",
"schedule": {
"scheduled_time": "2017-02-04T16:25:29.550Z"
}
},
"input": {
"search": {
"request": {
"search_type": "query_then_fetch",
"indices": [
"logs"
],
"types": [],
"body": {
"query": {
"range": {
"date": {
"gt": "now-1h",
"lt": "now-2h"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"condition": {
"compare": {
"ctx.payload.hits.total": {
"gt": 100000
}
}
},
"result": {
"execution_time": "2017-02-04T16:25:29.550Z",
"execution_duration": 1,
"input": {
"type": "search",
"status": "success",
"payload": {
"_shards": {
"total": 11,
"failed": 0,
"successful": 11
},
"hits": {
"hits": [],
"total": 0,
"max_score": null
},
"took": 1,
"timed_out": false
},
"search": {
"request": {
"search_type": "query_then_fetch",
"indices": [
"logs"
],
"types": [],
"body": {
"query": {
"range": {
"date": {
"gt": "now-1h",
"lt": "now-2h"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"condition": {
"type": "compare",
"status": "success",
"met": false,
"compare": {
"resolved_values": {
"ctx.payload.hits.total": 0
}
}
},
"actions": []
},
"messages": []
},
"fields": {
"result.execution_time": [
1486225529550
],
"trigger_event.schedule.scheduled_time": [
1486225529550
],
"trigger_event.triggered_time": [
1486225529550
]
},
"sort": [
1486225529550
]
}
```
---
### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-notifications-not-getting-delivered-16e7af-redirected-from-elastic-cloud-category/73951/4 "2017-02-04T20:40:25Z")
Hey,
when you check out the `condition`part of the watch history, you can spot that the condition is not met and thus no action executed. Under `result.input.payload` you can see that the search hit 11 shards, but yielded no results.
Maybe your search is not working as expected?
--Alex
---
### Author:  [@satheeshravir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/satheeshravir)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-notifications-not-getting-delivered-16e7af-redirected-from-elastic-cloud-category/73951/5 "2017-02-06T22:26:42Z")
@spinscale Thank you. That worked. Really appreciate your help.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slack-notifications-not-getting-delivered-16e7af-redirected-from-elastic-cloud-category/73951/6 "2017-03-06T22:26:43Z")
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