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[[example-watches]]
== Example watches
The following example shows how to set up a watch to:

* <<watch-cluster-status,Monitor the status of an Elasticsearch cluster>>

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

include::example-watches/example-watch-clusterstatus.asciidoc[]