# Watcher parse\_exception (actions proxy.host)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347 "2019-01-23T07:19:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@hanase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hanase)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347/1 "2019-01-23T07:19:42Z")
Hi elastic community,
I use kibana watcher send alert message to telegram.
error log input search and filter work very well.
But, in actions part, I need to use proxy connect to the external network.
I got information below
> Watcher: [parse\_exception] could not parse http request template. unexpected string field [proxy.host]
My proxy setting wrong?
Here is my watcher config
> "actions": {
> "my\_webhook": {
> "webhook": {
> "scheme": "http",
> "host": "[api.telegram.org](http://api.telegram.org)",
> "port": 443,
> "proxy.host": "172.16.99.125",
> "proxy.port": "3128",
> "method": "post",
> "path": "/botmybotid/sendMessage",
> "params": {
> "text": "There are {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} error logs occurred 30 minutes ago",
> "chat\_id": "-mychatid"
> },
> "headers": {}
> }
> }
> }
> }
---
### Author:  [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347/2 "2019-01-24T21:21:29Z")
Hi, it looks like you meant to post this question in the Elasticsearch topic, because Watcher is a feature of X-Pack in Elasticsearch. Kibana has a UI for crafting Watches, but the functionality remains in ES.
Hope that helps,
-Tim
---
### Author:  [@Izek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Izek)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347/3 "2019-01-25T02:28:19Z")
> [@hanase](#):
>
> "proxy.port": "3128",
try to remove the double quote
---
### Author:  [@hanase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hanase)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347/4 "2019-01-25T04:31:21Z")
> [@hanase](#):
>
> "proxy.host": "172.16.99.125",
> "proxy.port": "3128",
hi, now remove the double quote
> "actions": {
> "my\_webhook": {
> "webhook": {
> "scheme": "https",
> "host": "[api.telegram.org](http://api.telegram.org)",
> "port": 443,
> "proxy.host": "172.16.99.125",
> "proxy.port": 3128,
> "method": "post",
> "path": "/botmybotid/sendMessage",
> "params": {
> "text": "There are {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} error logs occurred 30 minutes ago",
> "chat\_id": "mychatid"
> },
> "headers": {}
> }
> }
> }
I still got information
> Watcher: [parse\_exception] could not parse http request template. unexpected string field [proxy.host]
---
### Author:  [@Izek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Izek)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347/5 "2019-01-25T05:37:35Z")
Remove double quote from proxy.host as well.
---
### Author:  [@hanase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hanase)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347/6 "2019-01-25T06:39:27Z")
hi, Izek
I remove double quote from proxy.host , then I got Invalid JSON error.
---
### Author:  [@hanase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hanase)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347/7 "2019-01-28T03:15:52Z")
Here is my latest config, it is works!!
```
"actions": {
"my_webhook": {
"webhook": {
"scheme": "https",
"host": "api.telegram.org",
"port": 443,
"method": "get",
"path": "/bot **********:*********** /sendMessage",
"params": {
"text": "There are {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} error logs occurred 30 minutes ago ",
"chat_id": "- *********"
},
"headers": {},
"proxy": {
"host": "172.16.99.125",
"port": 3128
}
}
}
```
}
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-parse-exception-actions-proxy-host/165347/8 "2019-02-25T03:16:00Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.