﻿---
title: Never condition
description: Use the never condition to skip performing the watch actions whenever the watch is triggered. The watch input is processed, a record is added to the watch...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5460/explore-analyze/alerting/watcher/condition-never
products:
  - Elasticsearch
applies_to:
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Never condition
Use the `never` condition to skip performing the watch actions whenever the watch is triggered. The watch input is processed, a record is added to the watch history, and watch execution ends. This condition is generally used for testing.

## Using the never condition

There are no attributes to specify for the `never` condition. To use the it, you specify the condition type and associate it with an empty object:
```js
"condition" : {
  "never" : {}
}
```