# Watcher does not show results in the mail message

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-does-not-show-results-in-the-mail-message/271106>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-does-not-show-results-in-the-mail-message/271106 "2021-04-23T15:16:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patr123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@Patr123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Patr123)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 2:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-does-not-show-results-in-the-mail-message/271106/3 "2021-04-26T02:59:15Z")

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Hello stephenb,  
I am trying to achieve something similar in my below post:

> [@How to include the ctx.payload.value in the email text for watcher alert?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-include-the-ctx-payload-value-in-the-email-text-for-watcher-alert/269655):
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> Hello All, I am trying to create a watcher alert for the servers that communicated to elastic in last 48 hrs but not in last 35 mins. I want to include the ctx.payload.value result in my email text but all I am getting is a blank value. My watcher json file looks like: { "input": { "search": { "request": { "search\_type": "query\_then\_fetch", "indices": ["metricbeat123-\*"], "rest\_total\_…

Will you be able to help me out?

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