# Elastic Watcher Integration
[Elastic Watcher](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.12/watcher-ui.html) is a set of administrative features that enable you to watch for changes or anomalies in your data and perform the necessary actions in response.
## In ilert: Create an Elastic Watcher alert source
1. Go to **Alert sources** -> **Alert sources** and click **Create new alert source**
2. Search for **Elastic Watcher** in the search field, click the Elastic Watcher tile, and click **Next**.
3. Give your alert source a name, optionally assign teams, and click **Next**.
4. Select an **escalation policy** by creating a new one or assigning an existing one.
5. Select your [Alert grouping](https://docs.ilert.com/alerting/configure-alerting/alert-sources#alert-grouping) preference and click **Continue setup**. You may click **Do not group alerts** for now and change it later.
6. The next page shows additional settings, such as customer alert templates or notification priority. Click on **Finish setup** for now.
7. On the final page, an API key and/or webhook URL will be generated, which you will need later in this guide.
## In Elastic Watcher
### Create a watcher
1. Go to Stack Management and then to **Alerts and Insights -> Watcher**, then click the **Create** button and the **Create advanced watch** button.
2. On the next page, name the watcher e.g. ilert, define conditions and actions the **Webhook URL** that you generated in ilert as follows:
```
{
...
[CONFIGURATIONS OF YOUR ELASTIC WATCHER ALERT]
...
"actions" : {
"ilert" : {
"webhook" : {
"scheme" : "https",
"method" : "POST",
"host" : "api.ilert.com",
"port" : 443,
"path" : "/api/v1/events/eswatcher/[YOUR API KEY]",
"headers" : {
"Content-Type" : "application/json"
},
"params": {},
"body" : "{{#toJson}}ctx{{/toJson}}"
}
}
}
}
```
3. Finished! Your Elastic Watcher will now create alerts in ilert.
## FAQ
**Will alerts in ilert be resolved automatically?**
No, unfortunately, Elastic Watcher's notification is not compatible with ilert's resolve event.
**Can I connect Elastic Watcher with multiple alert sources from ilert?**
Yes, simply add more watchers in Elastic Watcher.
