# Elastic agent not shipping data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-not-shipping-data/299236>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** elastic-agent\
**Created:** [March 9, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-not-shipping-data/299236 "2022-03-09T15:23:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Youssef\_Kaak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/youssef_kaak/32/99560_2.png) [@Youssef\_Kaak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Youssef_Kaak)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-not-shipping-data/299236/1 "2022-03-09T15:23:28Z")

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Hello everyone, I am new to ELK.  
Recently, I got access to a server which is running Vagrant and many other stuff.  
My mission is to mainly deploy ELK on a VM that will be running on Vagrant.  
I followed the steps mentionned on the documentation and the stack is up.  
I tried to ship data with Elastic Agents and Fleet but my agents don't seem to be shipping data. I have come across many diagnostics and I personally think the problem is Elasticsearch is refusing connection from external hosts.  
When I tried curl locally, it works:

```auto
curl --cacert certs/http_ca.crt -u elastic https://localhost:9200
Enter host password for user 'elastic':
{
  "name" : "ubuntu1810.localdomain",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "cluster_uuid" : "Msx7BBzAQhGGHC3lBVYBCw",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "8.0.1",
    "build_flavor" : "default",
    "build_type" : "deb",
    "build_hash" : "801d9ccc7c2ee0f2cb121bbe22ab5af77a902372",
    "build_date" : "2022-02-24T13:55:40.601285296Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "9.0.0",
    "minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "7.17.0",
    "minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "7.0.0"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

```

I have stuck at this point for a week and a half now. Any help would be deeply appreciated.`Preformatted text`

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**Author:** ![Youssef\_Kaak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/youssef_kaak/32/99560_2.png) [@Youssef\_Kaak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Youssef_Kaak)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-not-shipping-data/299236/2 "2022-03-09T15:25:55Z")

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Note:

1. I have deployed a Ubuntu 18.04 VM on which I installed elastic agent and it's shipping data as intended (as I told you, I am running ELK on a VM that is running on Vagrant)

2. anything outside that environment doesn't seem to be able to ship data nor to be installed sometimes.

I have tried to install packetbeat but when running "packetbeat setup -e" it displays: Error connecting to Elasticsearch host"

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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:** [April 6, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-not-shipping-data/299236/3 "2022-04-06T15:26:45Z")

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