# Elastic-agent communication error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-communication-error/316418>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-communication-error/316418 "2022-10-12T08:18:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mohsin\_Ashraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mohsin_ashraf/32/104333_2.png) [@Mohsin\_Ashraf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohsin_Ashraf)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-communication-error/316418/1 "2022-10-12T08:18:54Z")

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hi,  
When I tried to enrol elastic-agent, it was successfully enrolled but after a few time, it give me this error I tried to resolve this but was not able to resolve this error. if anyone has a solution to this please help me.

here is the error

> [elastic\_agent][error] Could not communicate with fleet-server Checking API will retry, error: fail to checkin to fleet-server: Post "[https://ip:8220/api/fleet/agents/91015920-1eb5-41f2-b358-5c4d34813f4c/checkin?](https://ip:8220/api/fleet/agents/91015920-1eb5-41f2-b358-5c4d34813f4c/checkin?)": read tcp ip:55454-\> ip:8220: read: connection timed out

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-communication-error/316418/2 "2022-11-09T08:19:14Z")

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