# Apm-server without ElasticSearch - refresh cache error: context deadline exceeded

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-without-elasticsearch-refresh-cache-error-context-deadline-exceeded/377450
**Category:** APM
**Tags:** server
**Created:** [April 23, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-without-elasticsearch-refresh-cache-error-context-deadline-exceeded/377450 "2025-04-23T15:12:36Z")
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### Author: ![Harm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Harm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Harm)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-without-elasticsearch-refresh-cache-error-context-deadline-exceeded/377450/1 "2025-04-23T15:12:36Z")

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**APM Server version** : 8.17.0-1

**Problem** :  
When starting the apm-server as standalone binary, no fleet, no Elasticsearch output, but output configured to Kafka, it keeps reporting errors about agentcfg: "failed to clear scroll: context deadline exceeded" and "refresh cache error: context deadline exceeded". From what i understand it's still trying to connect to Elasticsearch, hence I have tried disabling it via the apm-server.agent.config.elasticsearch.enabled: false setting. All without luck.

Any ideas?

**Startup** : via systemd service

```auto
/usr/share/apm-server/bin/apm-server --environment systemd --path.config /var/appdata/apm-server/config

```

**Config** : apm-server.yml

```auto
apm-server:
  host: 0.0.0.0:8200
  agent.config.elasticsearch.enabled: false

output.kafka:
  enabled: true
  hosts: kafa-host:9094
  topic: apm
  compression: lz4
  required_acks: 1
  ssl.certificate_authorities: my.truststore

path.home: /var/appdata/apm-server
path.config: ${path.home}/config
path.data: ${path.home}/data
path.logs: ${path.home}/logs

logging.level: debug

```

**Logs** :

```auto
Apr 23 16:54:20 my-server apm-server[3105114]: {"log.level":"warn","@timestamp":"2025-04-23T16:54:20.730+0200","log.logger":"agentcfg","log.origin":{"function":"github.com/elastic/apm-server/internal/agentcfg.(*ElasticsearchFetcher).clearScroll","file.name":"agentcfg/elasticsearch.go","file.line":260},"message":"failed to clear scroll: context deadline exceeded","service.name":"apm-server","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}
Apr 23 16:54:20 my-server apm-server[3105114]: {"log.level":"error","@timestamp":"2025-04-23T16:54:20.731+0200","log.logger":"agentcfg","log.origin":{"function":"github.com/elastic/apm-server/internal/agentcfg.(*ElasticsearchFetcher).Run.func1","file.name":"agentcfg/elasticsearch.go","file.line":150},"message":"refresh cache error: context deadline exceeded","service.name":"apm-server","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}

```