# Unable to get watcher to work in elastic search 6.3.2

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-watcher-to-work-in-elastic-search-6-3-2/155604>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 6, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-watcher-to-work-in-elastic-search-6-3-2/155604 "2018-11-06T19:27:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jevi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d9b06d/32.png) [@Jevi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jevi)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-watcher-to-work-in-elastic-search-6-3-2/155604/1 "2018-11-06T19:27:24Z")

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I have elastic search 6.3.2 version running in a node, i want to use the watcher capability but enabling watcher in elaststicsearch.yml seems not to get the the watche up as no watcher index is created.  
here is a sample of my .yml file.

bootstrap.memory\_lock: true  
cluster.name: elasticsearch  
http.port: 9200  
node.data: true  
node.ingest: true  
node.master: true  
node.max\_local\_storage\_nodes: 1  
node.name: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
path.data: E:\Monitoring\ElasticSearch\Data  
path.logs: E:\Monitoring\ElasticSearch\Logs  
transport.tcp.port: 9300  
xpack.license.self\_generated.type: basic  
xpack.security.enabled: false  
xpack.watcher.enabled: true  
xpack.watcher.index.rest.direct\_access : true  
network.bind\_host: 0.0.0.0  
network.publish\_host: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
network.host: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-watcher-to-work-in-elastic-search-6-3-2/155604/2 "2018-11-06T19:29:51Z")

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> [@Jevi](#):
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> xpack.license.self\_generated.type: basic

Alerting/Watcher is not available with the Basic license. See our [subscriptions page](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) for details of which features that are available with which license.

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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:** [December 4, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-watcher-to-work-in-elastic-search-6-3-2/155604/3 "2018-12-04T19:29:54Z")

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