# Typeerror: cannot read property 'message' of null watcher **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002 **Category:** Elasticsearch **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting **Created:** [January 4, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002 "2018-01-04T02:36:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 7 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![SIJIA\_CHEN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@SIJIA\_CHEN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SIJIA_CHEN) #### Post date: [January 4, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002/1 "2018-01-04T02:36:32Z")
Hi, I got this error when I was trying to create a watcher by using email action. Weird thing is that each time I tried to create the email action watcher, it not only gave me the error, but also kicked me out of the website and I had to log in again. I checked the log and seemed like the kibana was forced to restart itself for no reason. It was no problem with log watcher setup though. Anyone has ideas what is wrong with my kibana setting? Thanks! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/0/90e6890bf9caac03fd037d593086a9de34e4ee35.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/8/2874fe37998f68f585c4a8d60ee631abdc937168.png) ---
### Author: ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline) #### Post date: [January 4, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002/2 "2018-01-04T14:34:44Z")
Hi @SIJIA_CHEN, You're absolutely right in that it shouldn't cause that behavior. We have a fix coming for this particular issue and should be available in the next 6.1 release. Thanks, Chris ---
### Author: ![SIJIA\_CHEN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@SIJIA\_CHEN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SIJIA_CHEN) #### Post date: [January 4, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002/3 "2018-01-04T14:54:40Z")
Thanks for your reply Chirs! Looking forward to the new release! ---
### Author: ![Souciance\_Eqdam\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Souciance\_Eqdam\_Rash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Souciance_Eqdam_Rash) #### Post date: [January 5, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002/4 "2018-01-05T11:00:32Z")
I have also this issue. Good to hear about the fix 😉 ---
### Author: ![bferg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@bferg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bferg) #### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002/5 "2018-02-01T02:05:59Z")
We just ran into this error today on 6.1.1. I checked the release notes and did not see it mentioned. Did this make it into a release yet? ---
### Author: ![bferg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@bferg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bferg) #### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002/6 "2018-02-01T16:39:15Z")
Found it, released in 6.1.2: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.1/xkb-6.1.2.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.1/xkb-6.1.2.html) ---
### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system) #### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/typeerror-cannot-read-property-message-of-null-watcher/114002/7 "2018-03-01T16:39:30Z")
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