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# Filter Watching

**Bug Watcher** allows you to watch issues matching your **filters**. If you want to precisely define the set of issues to follow, **create a filter** or select one of you faviourite filters and **start watching** it.

If an issue that matches the filter you are watching is changed, you'll get notifications according to the [notification preferences](broken://pages/ZSyDTWUaUYYQxbBFVFLk) you set in the issue's project.

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**Example Use Case**

You want to get notified of on changes made to issues with critical or blocker priority affecting a component.

Instead of setting yourself a watcher of all such issues, you can **create a filter** and **start watching** it.

As a result, you will get notified upon **all issues matching the filter**. You will receive emails on the events that are configured in the Notification Scheme of the issue's project with Watchers as recipient.
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### How to do it?

Got to Filters 

Click on **Watch** next to the Filters you want to watch in **Watch column.**

![](/files/dXg5ppqhrayjeq0XPP4T)

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The issue events and method of notification (in-app or email) can be set in the [Project Watches tab.](/bug-watcher/user-guide/watch-projects-and-manage-watchers.md)
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