# Writing watcher alerts back to elastic
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-watcher-alerts-back-to-elastic/101139
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 20, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-watcher-alerts-back-to-elastic/101139 "2017-09-20T09:14:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@blueren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/blueren)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-watcher-alerts-back-to-elastic/101139/1 "2017-09-20T09:14:12Z")
Hi,
I'm trying to create watcher alerts for netflow data that I have. At present, by watching the official elastic video on youtube, I understand that once can log the alert on the logfile apart from send out emails / slack notifications etc.
My question is, is it possible to write the alert message back to elasticsearch so that I can maybe build a dashboard over it? I read somewhere that it should be possible, but I'm having difficulty finding the official documentation / tutorials surrounding this. Could someone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-watcher-alerts-back-to-elastic/101139/2 "2017-09-20T09:40:15Z")
You can! Check out [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.6/actions-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.6/actions-index.html)
We may not have a video, but check out the example here [https://github.com/elastic/examples/tree/master/Alerting/Sample%20Watches/port\_scan](https://github.com/elastic/examples/tree/master/Alerting/Sample%20Watches/port_scan)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-watcher-alerts-back-to-elastic/101139/3 "2017-10-18T09:40:20Z")
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