# Unable to Setup Watcher in 6.2.1
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879 "2018-02-14T20:35:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@dkris1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dkris1)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/1 "2018-02-14T20:35:33Z")
Hi all,
I have upgraded ELK from 6.0 to 6.2.1 and im trying to setup my first watcher. How ever it fails. following is the error.
"{
"error": {
"root\_cause": [
{
"type": "illegal\_argument\_exception",
"reason": "Rejecting mapping update to [.watches] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: [watch, doc]"
}
],
"type": "illegal\_argument\_exception",
"reason": "Rejecting mapping update to [.watches] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: [watch, doc]"
},
"status": 400
}"
Watcher :
PUT \_xpack/watcher/watch/log\_error\_watch
{
"trigger" : {
"schedule" : { "interval" : "10s" }
},
"input" : {
"search" : {
"request" : {
"indices" : ["filebeat-\*"],
"body" : {
"query" : {
"match" : { "message": "error" }
}
}
}
}
}
}
Am i missing anything ? New to x-pack.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/2 "2018-02-14T21:21:20Z")
hey,
have you been upgrading from 5.x by any chance or did you start with 6.0? Did you run the [migration assistance API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/migration-api-assistance.html) and the [migration upgrade API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/migration-api-upgrade.html)?
--Alex
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### Author:  [@dkris1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dkris1)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/3 "2018-02-14T21:56:52Z")
Hey Alex,
I started with 6.0. But X-pack is installed and configured only after upgrading to 6.2.1.
But after installing i ran the upgrade api. It gave me following now.
GET /\_xpack/migration/assistance
output :
{"indices": {}}
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/4 "2018-02-14T22:13:53Z")
Can you share the output of (one of them should return something on 6.0)
```auto
GET _template?filter_path=**.template
GET _template?filter_path=**. index_patterns
```
I am especially interested if there is a `watches` index template. if that is the case you could try to delete that one together with the `triggered_watches` template. If you then delete your `.watches` index, you should be able to put a watch again.
--Alex
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### Author:  [@dkris1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dkris1)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/5 "2018-02-14T22:17:19Z")
Alex, Here is the output for the
GET \_template?filter\_path=\*\*.template
output :
{
".watch-history-6": {
"settings": {
"index": {
"xpack": {
"watcher": {
"template": {
"version": "6"
}
}
}
}
}
},
".watch-history-7": {
"settings": {
"index": {
"xpack": {
"watcher": {
"template": {
"version": "7"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
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### Author:  [@dkris1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dkris1)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/6 "2018-02-14T22:35:10Z")
I deleted the **".watch-history-6"** template as well as **triggered\_watches** template. How ever i couldn't find any **.watches** index.
So i tried again creating a watch and its still failing.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/7 "2018-02-15T07:46:51Z")
Hey,
what about the watches template and the second template call I asked for?
--Alex
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### Author:  [@dkris1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dkris1)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/8 "2018-02-15T13:49:34Z")
Thanks Alex. It worked after deleting watches template.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-watcher-in-6-2-1/119879/9 "2018-03-15T13:49:49Z")
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