# Watcher unavailable when creating a ML job

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-unavailable-when-creating-a-ml-job/170312>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning, elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [February 28, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-unavailable-when-creating-a-ml-job/170312 "2019-02-28T10:08:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![javaguy44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@javaguy44](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javaguy44)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-unavailable-when-creating-a-ml-job/170312/1 "2019-02-28T10:08:44Z")

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Hi,

I created a ML job via the ML tutorial on [elastic.co](http://elastic.co). However I'm not given the option to setup a watcher like in this post:  
[https://www.elastic.co/blog/alerting-on-machine-learning-jobs-in-elasticsearch-v55](https://www.elastic.co/blog/alerting-on-machine-learning-jobs-in-elasticsearch-v55)

I have verified that watcher + smtp is setup correctly including sending a test email.

Can someone please advise?

Screenshot of what I see is attached

 ![ML](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/2/8297d84eb08142cb1f35cf69c3fc493836a5daa2.gif)

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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:** [February 28, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-unavailable-when-creating-a-ml-job/170312/2 "2019-02-28T14:31:42Z")

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You don't see the option to create the Watch until after you create the job:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/2/227179832d86e4f801bd3b8722dfaf316566cf44.png)

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**Author:** ![javaguy44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@javaguy44](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javaguy44)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-unavailable-when-creating-a-ml-job/170312/3 "2019-02-28T15:14:58Z")

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Ah perfect thanks! I didn't have my browser height tall enough vertically so it got chopped off. Thanks!

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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:** [March 28, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-unavailable-when-creating-a-ml-job/170312/4 "2019-03-28T15:15:01Z")

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