Watch store not started

[ajayrc (ajaykumar)]

Am using dockerized version of elastic-search-5.6.1 and using volume to persist data am getting this error frequently ..... any ideas how to debug it?

java.lang.IllegalStateException: watch store not started

at org.elasticsearch.client.FilterClient.doExecute(FilterClient.java:67) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.1.jar:5.6.1]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.InternalClient.doExecute(InternalClient.java:91) ~[?:?]
at org.elasticsearch.client.support.AbstractClient.execute(AbstractClient.java:408) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.1.jar:5.6.1]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.client.WatcherClient.getWatch(WatcherClient.java:96) ~[?:?]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.monitoring.exporter.local.LocalExporter.lambda$installClusterAlerts$8(LocalExporter.java:509) ~[?:?]
at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1249) [?:1.8.0_141]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.monitoring.exporter.local.LocalExporter.setupIfElectedMaster(LocalExporter.java:390) [x-pack-5.6.1.jar:5.6.1]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.monitoring.exporter.local.LocalExporter.resolveBulk(LocalExporter.java:212) [x-pack-5.6.1.jar:5.6.1]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.monitoring.exporter.local.LocalExporter.openBulk(LocalExporter.java:170) [x-pack-5.6.1.jar:5.6.1]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.monitoring.exporter.local.LocalExporter.openBulk(LocalExporter.java:96) [x-pack-5.6.1.jar:5.6.1]

[spinscale (Alexander Reelsen)]

Hey,

I have moved this over the x-pack forum, as this seems to be an x-pack issue.

Can you share full logs please (in a gist for example). This snippet alone does not help tackling down the issue. Can you try to start watcher via POST _xpack/watcher/_start

--Alex