# Watch store not started

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-store-not-started/118775>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 7, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-store-not-started/118775 "2018-02-07T08:23:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ajayrc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@ajayrc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajayrc)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-store-not-started/118775/1 "2018-02-07T08:23:49Z")

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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]
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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:** [February 7, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-store-not-started/118775/2 "2018-02-07T09:24:11Z")

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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

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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:** [March 7, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watch-store-not-started/118775/3 "2018-03-07T09:24:14Z")

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