# Watcher doesn't work (empty result) **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [June 18, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-doesnt-work-empty-result/136316 "2018-06-18T14:03:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [June 25, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-doesnt-work-empty-result/136316/21 "2018-06-25T10:00:38Z")
This watcher history entry indicates that a slack message has been sent successfully to the slack API. Maybe it makes sense to include the time in the text of the message, so you can match it to a certain run of a watch? ---
**Author:** ![\_Sergey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e68b1a/32.png) [@\_Sergey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_Sergey)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-doesnt-work-empty-result/136316/22 "2018-06-25T11:30:56Z")
Well, seems I explained not correctly. My watcher send to me notification - it is clear and right cause watcher doesnt see any hits total (as we can see in execution output taken from history of a watcher). So condition is mat and action is done. **But** it should not send me notification cause stats are presented in Kibana (I checked all dashboards/visualizations etc) **+** Watcher in Dev tools or in simulate see stats. That's why I asked a help: why watcher by itself doesn't see stats at all, but in simulation mode and in Dev tool the same query, for the same time period, find stats. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-doesnt-work-empty-result/136316/23 "2018-07-23T11:30:57Z")
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