[role="xpack"] [[example-watches]] == Example watches The following examples show how to set up watches to: * <<watch-cluster-status,Monitor the status of an Elasticsearch cluster>> * <<watching-meetup-data,Monitor event data>> For more example watches you can use as a starting point for building custom watches, see the https://github.com/elastic/examples/tree/master/Alerting[Example watches] in the Elastic Examples repo. include::example-watches/example-watch-clusterstatus.asciidoc[] include::example-watches/example-watch-meetupdata.asciidoc[]