# Watcher State Firing Constantly | Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-state-firing-constantly-elasticsearch/198252>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-state-firing-constantly-elasticsearch/198252 "2019-09-05T13:01:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ntran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/73ab20/32.png) [@ntran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ntran)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-state-firing-constantly-elasticsearch/198252/1 "2019-09-05T13:01:28Z")

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Hi all,

My watcher is constantly firing, with either "Partially Throttled" or "Throttled" for my comment.

Is this an issue? or is there something wrong with my server?

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Thanks,  
Nhung

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**Author:** ![ntran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/73ab20/32.png) [@ntran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ntran)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-state-firing-constantly-elasticsearch/198252/2 "2019-09-11T12:22:11Z")

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Hi,

Has anyone else experienced something similar before?  
I would appreciate your feedback 🙂

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**Author:** ![ntran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/73ab20/32.png) [@ntran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ntran)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-state-firing-constantly-elasticsearch/198252/3 "2019-09-15T06:47:00Z")

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Hi everyone,

Following up on this topic - has anyone experienced their watcher constantly firing with a `throttled` comment

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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:** [September 16, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-state-firing-constantly-elasticsearch/198252/4 "2019-09-16T13:44:02Z")

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have you configured the watch to throttle to prevent actions being executed despite the condition matching?

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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:** [October 14, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-state-firing-constantly-elasticsearch/198252/5 "2019-10-14T13:44:32Z")

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