[role="xpack"]
[[condition-never]]
=== {watcher} never condition
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<titleabbrev>Never condition</titleabbrev>
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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:

[source,js]
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"condition" : {
  "never" : {}
}
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// NOTCONSOLE