From version 5.0 onward, Watcher is part of X-Pack. For more information, see
Alerting on cluster and index events.
Listing Watches
editListing Watches
editWatcher stores watches in the .watches
index. You can search this index to see what watches are
configured.
You can only perform read actions on the .watches
index. You must use the Watcher
APIs to create, update, and delete watches. If you are using Shield, we recommend only granting
users read
privileges for the .watches
index.
To get the ids of all configured watches, run the following search query: