- Watcher Reference for 2.x and 1.x:
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Customizing Watches
- How Watcher Works
- Installing Watcher
- Administering Watcher
- Configuring Watcher to Send Email
- Configuring Watcher to Send Messages to HipChat
- Configuring Watcher to Send Messages to Slack
- Configuring Watcher to Send PagerDuty Events
- Integrating Watcher with Shield
- Integrating Watcher with Logstash
- Configuring the Default Throttle Period
- Configuring the Default HTTP Timeouts
- Configuring the Default Internal Operations Timeouts
- Getting Watcher Statistics
- Monitoring Watch Execution
- Managing Watches
- Example Watches
- Reference
- Managing Your License
- Limitations
- Troubleshooting
- Release Notes
From version 5.0 onward, Watcher is part of X-Pack. For more information, see
Alerting on cluster and index events.
Configuring the Default Throttle Period
editConfiguring the Default Throttle Period
editBy default, Watcher uses a default throttle period of 5 seconds. You can override this for particular actions by setting the throttle period in the action. You can also define a throttle period on the watch level that will serve as a default period for all those actions that don’t specify a throttle period themselves.
To change the default throttle period for all actions that are not configured with a
throttle period neither on the action level nor the watch level, you configure the
watcher.execution.default_throttle_period
setting in elasticsearch.yml
.
For example, to set the default throttle period to 15 minutes, add the following entry
to your elasticsearch.yml
file and restart Elasticsearch:
watcher.execution.default_throttle_period: 15m
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