# Watcher creation help
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-creation-help/315309
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [September 27, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-creation-help/315309 "2022-09-27T20:20:08Z")
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### Author:  [@ffmdsuperit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ffmdsuperit)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-creation-help/315309/1 "2022-09-27T20:20:09Z")
Hello! I'm very new to Elasticsearch and I am attempting to create a Watcher, but I just can't seem to put the pieces together.
I have a index named "transactions". For that index I run this query "TerminalID : 999999 and day\_of\_week : Fri and OurTime: 11\*" and last Friday it returned 7 results when I run it at 12:00PM.
I'd like to have the Watcher look at "1 week ago" till "Today", it should run at 12:00PM, and if the matching results are less than X then trigger an email alert.
Just testing a basic search I have the below "code", but I'm not sure how to limit the search to "1 Week Ago until Today". And I'm not sure this format could translate to a Watcher.
```auto
GET /transactions/_search
{
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "TerminalID : 999999 and day_of_week : Fri and OurTime: 11*"
}
},
"fields": [
"TerminalID",
"day_of_week",
"OurTime"
]
}
```
I'd really appreciate some assistance with this. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-creation-help/315309/2 "2022-10-25T20:20:58Z")
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