# Watch Expiration Date

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-expiration-date/25459>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [July 13, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-expiration-date/25459 "2015-07-13T16:01:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![prashant\_sharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea666f/32.png) [@prashant\_sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prashant_sharma)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-expiration-date/25459/1 "2015-07-13T16:01:32Z")

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I am looking for ways to specify an expiry period for a Watch. And was thinking of using the \_ttl flag.  
Are there any other ways to associate an expiry date with a Watch?

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**Author:** ![mvg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mvg/32/98890_2.png) [@mvg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvg)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-expiration-date/25459/2 "2015-07-13T17:14:43Z")

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Unfortunately specifying a ttl is not going to work. We're planning to add snooze and enable/disable features to Watcher to make this work smoothly.

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**Author:** ![prashant\_sharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea666f/32.png) [@prashant\_sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prashant_sharma)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-expiration-date/25459/3 "2015-07-13T17:25:43Z")

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Thanks Martijin. Is there any ETA for the snooze or enable/disable feature?

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**Author:** ![mvg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mvg/32/98890_2.png) [@mvg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvg)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-expiration-date/25459/4 "2015-07-13T17:44:45Z")

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Sorry, no ETA yet.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-expiration-date/25459/5 "2017-07-06T13:49:16Z")

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