# Elastic agent enroll fail : Error: fail to enroll: fail to execute request to fleet-server: Forbidden
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-enroll-fail-error-fail-to-enroll-fail-to-execute-request-to-fleet-server-forbidden/376893
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** fleet
**Created:** [April 8, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-enroll-fail-error-fail-to-enroll-fail-to-execute-request-to-fleet-server-forbidden/376893 "2025-04-08T05:24:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Priyanka\_chauhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Priyanka_chauhan)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-enroll-fail-error-fail-to-enroll-fail-to-execute-request-to-fleet-server-forbidden/376893/1 "2025-04-08T05:24:27Z")
{"log.level":"info","@timestamp":"2025-04-08T10:39:28.316+0530","log.origin":{"function":"[github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/internal/pkg/agent/cmd.(\*enrollCmd).enrollWithBackoff","file.name":"cmd/enroll\_cmd.go","file.line":526},"message":"1st](http://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/internal/pkg/agent/cmd.(*enrollCmd).enrollWithBackoff%22,%22file.name%22:%22cmd/enroll_cmd.go%22,%22file.line%22:526%7D,%22message%22:%221st) enrollment attempt failed, retrying enrolling to URL: [https://1.1.1.1:8220/](https://1.1.1.1:8220/) with exponential backoff (init 1s, max 10s)","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}
Error: fail to enroll: fail to execute request to fleet-server: Forbidden.
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### Author:  [@MichelLaterman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MichelLaterman)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-enroll-fail-error-fail-to-enroll-fail-to-execute-request-to-fleet-server-forbidden/376893/2 "2025-04-23T16:28:35Z")
This is likely caused by an invalid enrollment key