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[[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[]
