# What is "watcher"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412 "2019-01-23T13:12:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![li\_jessen2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/li_jessen2016/32/38817_2.png) [@li\_jessen2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/li_jessen2016)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/1 "2019-01-23T13:12:09Z")

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What does Watcher include in Elasticsearch? I haven't seen a dedicated chapter in the documents.

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**Author:** ![pjanzen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pjanzen/32/13756_2.png) [@pjanzen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pjanzen)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/2 "2019-01-23T13:36:07Z")

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[Does this help.](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/watcher-api.html) Its the docs about the watcher api..

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**Author:** ![li\_jessen2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/li_jessen2016/32/38817_2.png) [@li\_jessen2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/li_jessen2016)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/3 "2019-01-23T14:19:34Z")

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No. It doesn't specify what the watcher can do.

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**Author:** ![pjanzen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pjanzen/32/13756_2.png) [@pjanzen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pjanzen)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/4 "2019-01-23T17:31:53Z")

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Have you tried googled? loads of examples of what watcher can do..

> **[LMGTFY](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=elasticsearch+watcher+examples)**
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> LMGTFY

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/5 "2019-01-24T02:27:36Z")

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This might be useful - [https://www.elastic.co/products/stack/alerting](https://www.elastic.co/products/stack/alerting)

If not let us know, we can help clarify.

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**Author:** ![li\_jessen2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/li_jessen2016/32/38817_2.png) [@li\_jessen2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/li_jessen2016)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/6 "2019-01-24T12:04:09Z")

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I read it before and I guessed that watcher is some sort of alerting. But why haven't you specifically written it down in the reference documents?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/7 "2019-01-24T22:07:48Z")

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Have a look at that link I provided.

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**Author:** ![li\_jessen2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/li_jessen2016/32/38817_2.png) [@li\_jessen2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/li_jessen2016)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/8 "2019-01-25T11:45:46Z")

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No watcher found in that page.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/9 "2019-01-26T03:07:18Z")

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Alerting _is_ Watcher. Watcher is the previous name for it.

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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:** [February 23, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-watcher/165412/10 "2019-02-23T03:07:19Z")

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