# Watcher is not generating Email during anomaly

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-is-not-generating-email-during-anomaly/145670>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-is-not-generating-email-during-anomaly/145670 "2018-08-23T07:02:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-is-not-generating-email-during-anomaly/145670/4 "2018-08-29T18:59:32Z")

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See this for how to edit the watch and insert the .toString()

> [@Machine learning Alerts are failing for java error](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-alerts-are-failing-for-java-error/138629/9):
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> No, it would be: "start": { "script": { "lang": "painless", "source": """ LocalDateTime.ofEpochSecond((doc["timestamp"].date.getMillis()-((doc["bucket\_span"].value \* 1000) \* params.padding)) / 1000, 0, ZoneOffset.UTC).toString() """, "params": { "padding": 10 } } }, "end": { "script": { "lang": "pa…

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