# Watch condition not met even though it should be

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-condition-not-met-even-though-it-should-be/93826>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 19, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-condition-not-met-even-though-it-should-be/93826 "2017-07-19T18:28:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![David\_Tomasheski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@David\_Tomasheski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Tomasheski)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-condition-not-met-even-though-it-should-be/93826/1 "2017-07-19T18:28:14Z")

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So i have an alert that as best as I can tell isn't completing the actions even though it should. Here are the pertinant parts of my watch and results:

watch:  
"aggs": {  
"avg\_cst": {  
"avg": {  
"field": "CST"  
}  
}  
}

```
"condition": {
    "compare": {
      "ctx.payload.aggregations.avg_cst": {
        "gte": 500
      }
    }
  }

```

result:  
"condition": {  
"type": "compare",  
"status": "success",  
"met": false,  
"compare": {  
"resolved\_values": {  
"ctx.payload.aggregations.avg\_cst": {  
"value": 1137.616451810927  
}  
}  
}  
}

As 1137.616451810927 is clearly greater than or equal to 500 i'm not quite sure why my condition has "met":false Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![David\_Tomasheski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@David\_Tomasheski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Tomasheski)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-condition-not-met-even-though-it-should-be/93826/2 "2017-07-20T16:21:48Z")

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I recreated my watch after successfully getting a different watch which uses compare(but no aggregation) to work. However the new watch doesn't work either and i copied the body of the working watch and just tweaked it. Here is my watch results:

```
{
  "watch_id": "CST_Watch",
  "state": "execution_not_needed",
 "_status": {
     "state": {
  "active": true,
  "timestamp": "2017-07-20T15:48:39.247Z"
},
"last_checked": "2017-07-20T16:03:39.530Z",
"actions": {
  "my-logging-action": {
    "ack": {
      "timestamp": "2017-07-20T15:48:39.247Z",
      "state": "awaits_successful_execution"
    }
  },
  "send_email": {
    "ack": {
      "timestamp": "2017-07-20T15:48:39.247Z",
      "state": "awaits_successful_execution"
    }
  }
}
   },
   "trigger_event": {
     "type": "schedule",
     "triggered_time": "2017-07-20T16:03:39.530Z",
     "schedule": {
       "scheduled_time": "2017-07-20T16:03:39.257Z"
     }
   },
   "input": {
     "search": {
  "request": {
    "search_type": "query_then_fetch",
    "indices": [
      "ts*"
    ],
    "types": [],
    "body": {
      "size": 0,
      "query": {
        "bool": {
          "must": [
            {
              "range": {
                "dt": {
                  "gte": "now-24h"
                }
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "aggs": {
        "avg_cst": {
          "avg": {
            "field": "CallSetupTime"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
   },
   "condition": {
"compare": {
  "ctx.payload.aggregations.avg_cst": {
    "gte": 500
  }
}
   },
   "metadata": {
     "name": "Call Setup Time Watch"
   },
   "result": {
"execution_time": "2017-07-20T16:03:39.530Z",
"execution_duration": 20,
"input": {
  "type": "search",
  "status": "success",
  "payload": {
    "_shards": {
      "total": 75,
      "failed": 0,
      "successful": 75
    },
    "hits": {
      "hits": [],
      "total": 505829,
      "max_score": 0
    },
    "took": 19,
    "timed_out": false,
    "aggregations": {
      "avg_cst": {
        "value": 1204.9892663064395
      }
    }
  },
  "search": {
    "request": {
      "search_type": "query_then_fetch",
      "indices": [
        "ts*"
      ],
      "types": [],
      "body": {
        "size": 0,
        "query": {
          "bool": {
            "must": [
              {
                "range": {
                  "dt": {
                    "gte": "now-24h"
                  }
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        "aggs": {
          "avg_cst": {
            "avg": {
              "field": "CallSetupTime"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
},
"condition": {
  "type": "compare",
  "status": "success",
  "met": false,
  "compare": {
    "resolved_values": {
      "ctx.payload.aggregations.avg_cst": {
        "value": 1204.9892663064395
      }
    }
  }
},
"actions": []
   },
   "messages": []
 }
```

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-condition-not-met-even-though-it-should-be/93826/3 "2017-07-28T07:18:57Z")

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Hey,

try `ctx.payload.aggregations.avg_cst.value` as the path for the compare condition, seems you are trying to compare an object and not the full path to that number.

--Alex

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**Author:** ![David\_Tomasheski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@David\_Tomasheski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Tomasheski)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-condition-not-met-even-though-it-should-be/93826/4 "2017-07-28T13:47:13Z")

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Alex,

Thanks for getting back to me. I had worked that out after finally spotting the .value attribute in a video somewhere and tried it. None of the Examples of the aggregations that I found showed how use them so I had never seen the .value before. Thanks for the help.

Dave

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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:** [August 25, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-condition-not-met-even-though-it-should-be/93826/5 "2017-08-25T13:47:50Z")

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