# Watch creation failed - Make sure your user has permission to create watches

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-creation-failed-make-sure-your-user-has-permission-to-create-watches/212656>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** ui\
**Created:** [December 20, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-creation-failed-make-sure-your-user-has-permission-to-create-watches/212656 "2019-12-20T11:49:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edgar\_Peixoto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/edgar_peixoto/32/58987_2.png) [@Edgar\_Peixoto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edgar_Peixoto)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-creation-failed-make-sure-your-user-has-permission-to-create-watches/212656/1 "2019-12-20T11:49:19Z")

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I am receiving this error when I am trying to create a watcher error report to send to slack. I have superuser privilege.

I am using 7.5 version of Elastic Cloud.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/9/79342bb634bcaa701508a9c5e922c02545ae0361.png)

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**Author:** ![casper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/casper/32/21254_2.png) [@casper](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/casper)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-creation-failed-make-sure-your-user-has-permission-to-create-watches/212656/2 "2019-12-20T13:03:17Z")

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Hi Edgar,

Thanks for getting in touch. We had a small regression in the Watcher feature in our 7.5 release, which has been fixed in [7.5.1](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51721). You should be able to do a seamless update in the Cloud console for your Elastic Stack.

Best regards,  
Casper

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**Author:** ![Edgar\_Peixoto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/edgar_peixoto/32/58987_2.png) [@Edgar\_Peixoto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edgar_Peixoto)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-creation-failed-make-sure-your-user-has-permission-to-create-watches/212656/3 "2019-12-20T16:07:41Z")

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I upgraded the stack to 7.5.1 and it worked. Thanks.

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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:** [January 10, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-creation-failed-make-sure-your-user-has-permission-to-create-watches/212656/4 "2020-01-10T12:07:45Z")

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