---
title: Example watches
description: The following example shows how to set up a watch to: Monitor the status of an Elasticsearch cluster. For more example watches you can use as a starting...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5400/explore-analyze/alerting/watcher/example-watches
products:
  - Elasticsearch
applies_to:
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Example watches
The following example shows how to set up a watch to:
- [Monitor the status of an Elasticsearch cluster](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5400/explore-analyze/alerting/watcher/watch-cluster-status)

For more example watches you can use as a starting point for building custom watches, refer to the [Example watches](https://github.com/elastic/examples/tree/master/Alerting) in the Elastic Examples repo.