# Watcher error never seen before

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-error-never-seen-before/80742>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [March 30, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-error-never-seen-before/80742 "2017-03-30T20:34:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![seanziee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/seanziee/32/45151_2.png) [@seanziee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seanziee)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-error-never-seen-before/80742/1 "2017-03-30T20:34:34Z")

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My watchers were working perfectly fine until yesterday where I noticed I'm not getting anymore emails and I'm getting this error.

> could not register execution [Watch12]. current executions are sealed and forbid registrations of additional executions."

I see this error when I "\_execute" the watch and I don't see this error anywhere on the interwebs. What is the source of this? I have Kibana 5.1.2.

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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:** [March 31, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-error-never-seen-before/80742/2 "2017-03-31T07:32:42Z")

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Hey,

can you confirm that watcher is started? Use the [watcher stats API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.3/watcher-api-stats.html) to find out. If it is stopped, just start it again.

--Alex

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**Author:** ![seanziee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/seanziee/32/45151_2.png) [@seanziee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seanziee)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-error-never-seen-before/80742/3 "2017-04-01T14:21:18Z")

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Ok, looks like one of my nodes shut down and messed up the cluster and thus watcher too. Thanks for the help! 🙂

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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:** [April 29, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-error-never-seen-before/80742/4 "2017-04-29T14:21:31Z")

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