Might be similar to Getting mail from all topics just not the ones I'm following
I set the #beats:metricbeat to normal:
But I'm still getting email notifications:
Wondering if I did something wrong.
Changing the category level will not automatically unwatch stuff.
If you use the UI in https://discuss.elastic.co/my/preferences/categories to add, save and then remove, you will be prompted with a notice that will allow you to stop watching existing.