# Why Certain watchers are disabled

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-certain-watchers-are-disabled/224239>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 19, 2020, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-certain-watchers-are-disabled/224239 "2020-03-19T09:36:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![karthik2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@karthik2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karthik2)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-certain-watchers-are-disabled/224239/1 "2020-03-19T09:36:25Z")

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Hi Team,

Please find the attached screenshot and please let me know how to enable the default available watchers in kibana

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/f/5ff20128cd19eb459509dd8a0c206ee7e8173593.png)

Kind Regards  
Karthik

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-certain-watchers-are-disabled/224239/2 "2020-03-19T16:54:54Z")

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By default, when you add a watch it is immediately set to the _active_ state, registered with the appropriate trigger engine, and executed according to its configured trigger.

You can also set a watch to the _inactive_ state. Inactive watches are not registered with a trigger engine and can never be triggered.

To set a watch to the inactive state when you create it, set the [`active`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-put-watch.html) parameter to _inactive_ . To deactivate an existing watch, use the [deactivate watch API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-deactivate-watch.html). To reactivate an inactive watch, use the [activate watch API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-activate-watch.html).

### Request[edit](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/edit/7.6/x-pack/docs/en/rest-api/watcher/activate-watch.asciidoc)

`PUT _watcher/watch/<watch_id>/_activate`

This API enables you to activate a currently inactive watch.

Hope it helps.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-certain-watchers-are-disabled/224239/3 "2020-03-19T16:55:35Z")

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You can look at the kibana logs to see why those watches were disabled. Logs would help.

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**Author:** ![karthik2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@karthik2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karthik2)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-certain-watchers-are-disabled/224239/4 "2020-03-20T05:00:43Z")

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No My question is , there are certain watchers which are in READ ONLY mode how can we enable them

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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:** [April 17, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-certain-watchers-are-disabled/224239/5 "2020-04-17T05:00:44Z")

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