To configure a watch to email reports, use the `reporting` attachment type in an `email` action. For more information, refer to {ref}/actions-email.html#configuring-email[Configuring email accounts].

For example, the following watch generates a PDF report and emails the report every hour:

[source,js]
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PUT _watcher/watch/error_report
{
  "trigger" : {
    "schedule": {
      "interval": "1h"
    }
  },
  "actions" : {
    "email_admin" : { <1>
      "email": {
        "to": "'Recipient Name <recipient@example.com>'",
        "subject": "Error Monitoring Report",
        "attachments" : {
          "error_report.pdf" : {
            "reporting" : {
              "url": "http://0.0.0.0:5601/api/reporting/generate/printablePdf?jobParams=...", <2>
              "retries":40, <3>
              "interval":"15s", <4>
              "auth":{ <5>
                "basic":{
                  "username":"elastic",
                  "password":"changeme"
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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// CONSOLE

<1> Configure at least one email account to enable Watcher to send email. For more information, refer to {ref}/actions-email.html#configuring-email[Configuring email accounts].
<2> An example POST URL. You can copy and paste the URL for any report.
<3> Optional, default is `40`.
<4> Optional, default is `15s`.
<5> User credentials for a user with permission to access {kib} and the {report-features}. For more information, refer to <<secure-reporting>>.

[NOTE]
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*Reporting* is integrated with Watcher only as an email attachment type.

The report generation URL might contain date-math expressions that cause the watch to fail with a `parse_exception`. To avoid a failed watch, remove curly braces `{`  `}` from date-math expressions and URL-encode characters.
For example, `...(range:(%27@timestamp%27:(gte:now-15m%2Fd,lte:now%2Fd))))...`

For more information about configuring watches, refer to {ref}/how-watcher-works.html[How Watcher works].
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