# Watcher Service not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-service-not-working/140348
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-service-not-working/140348 "2018-07-17T14:51:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@vkrishna91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vkrishna91)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-service-not-working/140348/1 "2018-07-17T14:51:06Z")
I have a three node elasticsearch cluster, One node is not connecting to the cluster. The elasticsearch service running on it but i saw this error.
[2018-07-17T00:00:07,000][ERROR][o.e.x.w.e.ExecutionService] [elk-data-node02] failed to update watch record [arew575AS2mNXNz-uWcMvQ\_elasticsearch\_cluster\_status\_ded01a2a-e3dc-47a7-ac52-b7464f371248-2018-07-16T23:59:36.980Z]
org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchTimeoutException: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Timeout waiting for task.
I tried restarting the elasticsearch service but now i am getting this error.
[2018-07-17T00:00:07,000][ERROR][o.e.x.w.e.ExecutionService] [elk-data-node02] failed to update watch record [arew575AS2mNXNz-uWcMvQ\_xpack\_license\_expiration\_a2ee5443-eb6b-43eb-a88f-0028b0c606b7-2018-07-16T23:59:36.980Z]
[2018-07-17T00:00:22,493][ERROR][o.e.x.w.e.ExecutionService] [elk-data-node02] failed to update watch record [arew575AS2mNXNz-uWcMvQ\_kibana\_version\_mismatch\_e7b522b6-f232-45c9-b7d9-38113314eb83-2018-07-16T23:59:52.483Z]
I still have six days remaining in the xpack license. and all the nodes are running on elasticsearch-6.3.0
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### Author:  [@tdasch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tdasch)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-service-not-working/140348/2 "2018-07-17T16:54:12Z")
What do your logs look like for `node02`? Seems like you'd want to start with getting `node02` connected back with the cluster.
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### Author:  [@vkrishna91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vkrishna91)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-service-not-working/140348/3 "2018-07-17T18:48:47Z")
Hi Thomas,
I am not seeing any other logs apart from the above logs. I tried to remove the watcher and restarted the elasticsearch, now i am not seeing any errors but its still not connecting to the cluster.
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### Author:  [@tdasch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tdasch)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-service-not-working/140348/4 "2018-07-24T11:14:33Z")
Sorry for the late response, your response email went to my spam folder ☹ Any luck getting this resolved - i think at this point your trial license has expired so I hope you figured it out?
Concerning the logs, you can find Elasticsearch logs in /var/log/elasticsearch. If you view the log for `node2` it should show you what happened to that particular node.
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### Author:  [@vkrishna91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vkrishna91)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-service-not-working/140348/5 "2018-07-24T13:02:53Z")
I restarted the whole cluster and removed the watcher which was giving me errors while starting it up. Thanks for the response 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-service-not-working/140348/6 "2018-08-21T13:05:21Z")
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