From bb435f0d4a7406e7f7a7e5175102a631889c9b3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brandon Morelli <brandon.morelli@elastic.co>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:07:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [APM] docs: remove watcher documentation  (#73485) (#73714)

---
 docs/apm/error-reports-watcher.asciidoc | 18 ------------------
 docs/apm/how-to-guides.asciidoc         |  3 ---
 docs/redirects.asciidoc                 | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 docs/apm/error-reports-watcher.asciidoc

diff --git a/docs/apm/error-reports-watcher.asciidoc b/docs/apm/error-reports-watcher.asciidoc
deleted file mode 100644
index f41597932b751..0000000000000
--- a/docs/apm/error-reports-watcher.asciidoc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-[role="xpack"]
-[[errors-alerts-with-watcher]]
-=== Error reports with Watcher
-
-++++
-<titleabbrev>Enable error reports</titleabbrev>
-++++
-
-You can use the power of the alerting features with Watcher to get reports on error occurrences.
-The Watcher assistant, which is available on the errors overview, can help you set up a watch per service.
-
-Configure the watch with an occurrences threshold, time interval, and the desired actions, such as email or Slack notifications.
-With Watcher, your team can set up reports within minutes.
-
-Watches are managed separately in the dedicated Watcher UI available in Advanced Settings.
-
-[role="screenshot"]
-image::apm/images/apm-errors-watcher-assistant.png[Example view of the Watcher assistant for errors in APM app in Kibana]
diff --git a/docs/apm/how-to-guides.asciidoc b/docs/apm/how-to-guides.asciidoc
index 9b0efb4f7a359..9a415375f17fd 100644
--- a/docs/apm/how-to-guides.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/apm/how-to-guides.asciidoc
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ Learn how to perform common APM app tasks.
 * <<agent-configuration>>
 * <<apm-alerts>>
 * <<custom-links>>
-* <<errors-alerts-with-watcher>>
 * <<filters>>
 * <<machine-learning-integration>>
 * <<advanced-queries>>
@@ -21,8 +20,6 @@ include::apm-alerts.asciidoc[]
 
 include::custom-links.asciidoc[]
 
-include::error-reports-watcher.asciidoc[]
-
 include::filters.asciidoc[]
 
 include::machine-learning.asciidoc[]
diff --git a/docs/redirects.asciidoc b/docs/redirects.asciidoc
index d263642b2e90c..cde588ee731d2 100644
--- a/docs/redirects.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/redirects.asciidoc
@@ -96,3 +96,13 @@ This page was deleted. See <<development-visualize-index>>.
 == Developing Visualizations
 
 This page was deleted. See <<development-visualize-index>>.
+
+[role="exclude",id="errors-alerts-with-watcher"]
+== Error reports with Watcher
+
+deprecated::[7.9.0]
+
+Watcher error reports have been removed and replaced with Kibana's <<apm-alerts,alerting and actions>> feature.
+To create error alerts with new tool, select **Alerts** - **Create threshold alert** - **Error rate**.
+
+More information on this new feature is available in <<apm-alerts>>.