# Watcher Logs in elastic search server

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logs-in-elastic-search-server/181568
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [May 17, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logs-in-elastic-search-server/181568 "2019-05-17T10:43:52Z")
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### Author: ![dinesh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dinesh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dinesh1)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logs-in-elastic-search-server/181568/1 "2019-05-17T10:43:53Z")

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Hi Team,

How to get watcher state logs in backend server like in /var/log/elsticsearch/elasticsearch.log.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/4/f48a254c182042da12dee9b41b93f7fde5dda468.png)

Regards,  
Dinesh

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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: [May 22, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logs-in-elastic-search-server/181568/2 "2019-05-22T08:03:55Z")

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All watch executions are not logged into a file but into the watcher history indices.

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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: [June 19, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logs-in-elastic-search-server/181568/3 "2019-06-19T08:04:02Z")

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