# Watch is stuck at error, always needs a manual restart

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-is-stuck-at-error-always-needs-a-manual-restart/249778
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [September 24, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-is-stuck-at-error-always-needs-a-manual-restart/249778 "2020-09-24T08:59:12Z")
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### Author: ![Shubhangi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Shubhangi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shubhangi)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-is-stuck-at-error-always-needs-a-manual-restart/249778/4 "2020-09-26T20:00:56Z")

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I read @s1monw's response here: [Cannot recover index because of missing tanslog files](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-recover-index-because-of-missing-tanslog-files/38336/6) but I didn't quite understand how renaming a file would help me. Also my translog file is already named: translog-11.tlog and translog.ckp.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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