# APM Server throwing frequent connection failures against Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-throwing-frequent-connection-failures-against-kibana/269949>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** docker, server\
**Created:** [April 12, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-throwing-frequent-connection-failures-against-kibana/269949 "2021-04-12T21:14:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![j-chao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/j-chao/32/86957_2.png) [@j-chao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/j-chao)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-throwing-frequent-connection-failures-against-kibana/269949/1 "2021-04-12T21:14:00Z")

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**Kibana version** : 7.10.2

**Elasticsearch version** : 7.10.2

**APM Server version** : 7.10.2

**APM Agent language and version** : elasticapm-java/1.15.0 and elasticapm-java/1.20.0

**Browser version** : Chrome Version 89.0.4389.114

**Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from source, etc.) and version**:  
Docker image

**Fresh install or upgraded from other version?** upgraded from 7.10.0

**Is there anything special in your setup?** For example, are you using the Logstash or Kafka outputs? Are you using a load balancer in front of the APM Servers? Have you changed index pattern, generated custom templates, changed agent configuration etc.

APM Servers fronted with NGINX Ingress Controller on Kubernetes.

**Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior. Please include screenshots (if relevant)**:  
I am getting frequent "context canceled" errors in APM Servers when trying to make a request against Kibana for agent-configuration.

I do see some requests successfully being received by Kibana.

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**Errors in browser console (if relevant)**: n/a

**Provide logs and/or server output (if relevant)**:

```auto
ERROR [request] middleware/log_middleware.go:99 sending request to kibana failed {"request_id": "c1e065c1-ea1f-482c-9e0f-9c0cd259521a", "method": "POST", "URL": "/config/v1/agents", "content_length": 654, "remote_address": "10.49.2.42", "user-agent": "elasticapm-java/1.15.0", "event.duration": 4989889838, "response_code": 503, "error": "sending request to kibana failed: Post \"https://kibana.<k8s-service>.svc:5601/api/apm/settings/agent-configuration/search\": context canceled"}

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-throwing-frequent-connection-failures-against-kibana/269949/2 "2021-05-03T17:14:36Z")

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