---
title: Always condition
description: Use the always condition to perform the watch actions whenever the watch is triggered, unless they are throttled. The always condition enables you to...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/explore-analyze/alerting/watcher/condition-always
products:
  - Elasticsearch
applies_to:
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Always condition
Use the `always` condition to perform the watch actions whenever the watch is triggered, unless they are [throttled](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/explore-analyze/alerting/watcher/actions#actions-ack-throttle).
The `always` condition enables you to perform watch actions on a fixed schedule, such as, *"Every Friday at noon, send a status report email to `sys.admin@example.com`"*

## Using the always condition

This is the default if you omit the condition definition from a watch.
There are no attributes to specify for the `always` condition. To explicitly use this condition, specify the condition type and associate it with an empty object:
```js
"condition" : {
  "always" : {}
}
```