---
title: Hunt Watch
description: The AlertZero Hunt Watch proactively hunts your Elastic Security environment for threats, without waiting for an alert.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/9118/solutions/security/alertzero/watches/hunt-watch
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Documentation
  - Elastic Security
applies_to:
  - Serverless Security projects: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Planned
---

# Hunt Watch
The Hunt Watch proactively hunts your environment for threats, without waiting for an alert.

| Worker                                                                                                                                                          | What it does                                                                                 | Works with                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Continuous Threat Hunt](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/9118/solutions/security/alertzero/watches/continuous-threat-hunt-worker) | Searches your data for activity that matches threat reports and for detection coverage gaps. | The [Rule Coverage Worker](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/9118/solutions/security/alertzero/watches/rule-coverage-worker) in the [Detection Watch](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/9118/solutions/security/alertzero/watches/detection-watch), which proposes rules for the detection gaps this Worker finds. |


## When to turn on the Hunt Watch

Turn on the Hunt Watch when you want to search for threats proactively, without waiting for an alert. Turn it on together with the [Rule Coverage Worker](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/9118/solutions/security/alertzero/watches/rule-coverage-worker), so the detection gaps it finds become rules.