# Unable to generate reports using watcher
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [June 28, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192 "2017-06-28T21:07:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Raj\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192/1 "2017-06-28T21:07:18Z")
Hi All,
I created a watch for reporting and am getting this message when am executing it ,please do let me know what has to done
```
"actions": [
{
"id": "email_admin",
"type": "email",
"status": "failure",
"reason": "Watch[error_report] reporting[error_report.pdf] Error when polling pdf from host[x.x.x.x], port[5601], method[POST], path[/api/reporting/generate/visualization/eb9c4d90-47c8-11e7-99d5-bffffae7], status[200]"
}
]
},
"messages": []
```
}
Please help me how to fix this issue
Thanks in advance,
Raj
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192/2 "2017-06-30T10:14:28Z")
hey,
can you share the full watch please?
--Alex
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### Author:  [@Raj\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192/3 "2017-06-30T13:43:55Z")
Hi Alex,
Thank you for the reply now i tried another elk machine
Iam trying to schedule a automatic report using watcher and I got email with pdf attachment ,but when is open it says fail to load and the same visualization ,i created a manual report using generated pdf and after some time it loads in to saved objects and I downloaded pdf and able to view the pdf ,
I used
PUT xpack/watcher/watch/cstest\_report
{
"trigger" : {
"schedule": {
"interval": "1d"
}
},
"actions" : {
"email\_admin" : {
"email": {
"to": "xx@xx",
"subject": "cs test report",
"attachments" : {
"cs\_report.pdf" : {
"http" : {
"content\_type" : "application/pdf",
"request" : {
"method": "POST",
"scheme": "http",
"headers": {
"kbn-xsrf": "reporting"
},
"auth": {
"basic": {
"username": "elastic",
"password": "xxxx"
}
},
"read\_timeout": "300s",
"url": "[http://localhost:5601/api/reporting/generate/dashboard/24dfe340-5742-11e7-ab3b-e7e9f2dfdcf8?\_g=(refreshInterval:(display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now%2Fd,mode:quick,to:now%2Fd)](http://localhost:5601/api/reporting/generate/dashboard/24dfe340-5742-11e7-ab3b-e7e9f2dfdcf8?_g=(refreshInterval:(display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now%2Fd,mode:quick,to:now%2Fd)))&"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
and I want to execute it so i used
POST xpack/watcher/watch/cstest\_report/\_execute
{
"record\_execution": true
}
it will not even take time to load it comes immediately with
{
"id": "cstest\_report\_2f6a378f-a0ab-4de2-956c-131e6b4b6fbf-2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"watch\_record": {
"watch\_id": "cs\_test\_report",
"state": "executed",
"\_status": {
"state": {
"active": true,
"timestamp": "2017-06-29T13:37:59.068Z"
},
"last\_checked": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"last\_met\_condition": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"actions": {
"email\_admin": {
"ack": {
"timestamp": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"state": "ackable"
},
"last\_execution": {
"timestamp": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"successful": true
},
"last\_successful\_execution": {
"timestamp": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"successful": true
}
}
}
},
"trigger\_event": {
"type": "manual",
"triggered\_time": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"manual": {
"schedule": {
"scheduled\_time": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z"
}
}
},
"input": {
"none": {}
},
"condition": {
"always": {}
},
"result": {
"execution\_time": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"execution\_duration": 254,
"input": {
"type": "none",
"status": "success",
"payload": {}
},
"condition": {
"type": "always",
"status": "success",
"met": true
},
"actions": [
{
"id": "email\_admin",
"type": "email",
"status": "success",
"email": {
"account": "standard\_account",
"message": {
"id": "cs\_test\_report\_2f6a378f-a0ab-4de2-956c-131e6b4b6fbf-2017-06-29T13:38:04.278Z",
"from": "xx@xx",
"sent\_date": "2017-06-29T13:38:04.383Z",
"to": [
"xx@xx"
],
"subject": "cs test report"
}
}
}
]
},
"messages": []
}
}
I will receive an email and if i try to open it will say fail to load it , but if i go to saved objects i have all the list of generated automatic reports but I dont want to download it from kibana I want it to view from email.
Please help me to fix this issue.
Thanks in advance,
Raj
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192/4 "2017-06-30T14:34:54Z")
how does the file in the attachment look like? Is it zero sized?
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### Author:  [@Raj\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192/5 "2017-06-30T14:38:17Z")
Hi Alex,
No its 2.4 kb,but simultaneously if i go to generated reports in saved objects i could find the same pdf ,same size,and i tried manually downloading it ,I am able to open,but I want it automatic.
Thanks,
Raj
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192/6 "2017-06-30T15:41:28Z")
Hey,
after digging a bit I saw that this logline is misleading
```auto
"reason": "Watch[error_report] reporting[error_report.pdf] Error when polling pdf from host[x.x.x.x], port[5601], method[POST], path[/api/reporting/generate/visualization/eb9c4d90-47c8-11e7-99d5-bffffae7], status[200]"
```
the `status`field is actually not 200 (everything ok), but a 4xx error. Which means a client error, after the creation of the dashboard was triggered.
You can emulate the same behaviour that the reporting attachment is doing, by triggered the creation of a dashboard and then poll if it has been received, here is how:
```auto
curl -X POST -u user:pass --header "kbn-xsrf: reporting" "http://example.org:5601/path/to/dashboard
```
The above returns a JSON payload, that contains a a field called `path` - which is the new URI for to poll.
You can now issue the curl call above against the same URL and check the responses. Is there a 4xx error returned at some point?
Sorry for the lengthy description, but this is the only way to get down to the issue. I will improve the logging in the meantime.
Thanks a lot for your help and patience, greatly appreciated!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-generate-reports-using-watcher/91192/7 "2017-07-28T15:41:37Z")
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