# XPACK Alerting "extract" same field from all hits
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-alerting-extract-same-field-from-all-hits/165923
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 28, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-alerting-extract-same-field-from-all-hits/165923 "2019-01-28T00:18:53Z")
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### Author:  [@adnanbaykal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adnanbaykal)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-alerting-extract-same-field-from-all-hits/165923/1 "2019-01-28T00:18:53Z")
I am creating an alert in XPACK WATCHER -
I get the results as json but I want to extract one field from the result set (hits).
I want to achieve the following:
{{ctx.payload.hits.hits.\*.\_source.text}}"
This works when I actually put a number in place of the wildcard. How can I extract a field from the result set from all the documents?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@adnanbaykal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adnanbaykal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-alerting-extract-same-field-from-all-hits/165923/2 "2019-02-06T14:58:18Z")
FYI - in case someone else is also searching for this - you achieve this by defining the fields in the query statement.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-alerting-extract-same-field-from-all-hits/165923/3 "2019-03-06T14:58:19Z")
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