# Elastic agent uses configured proxy to get metadata apis

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-uses-configured-proxy-to-get-metadata-apis/356203>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** fleet\
**Created:** [March 26, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-uses-configured-proxy-to-get-metadata-apis/356203 "2024-03-26T19:18:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![aleccoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@aleccoder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aleccoder)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-uses-configured-proxy-to-get-metadata-apis/356203/1 "2024-03-26T19:18:09Z")

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![elastic](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/1/a120db900fe6deba00da43a308019ba35d5ec7d0.png)  
.\elastic-agent.exe install --url=[https://id.fleet.us-east-1.aws.found.io:443](https://id.fleet.us-east-1.aws.found.io:443) --enrollment-token=l --proxy-url=proxyurl

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**Author:** ![Julia\_Bardi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/julia_bardi/32/79463_2.png) [@Julia\_Bardi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Julia_Bardi)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-uses-configured-proxy-to-get-metadata-apis/356203/2 "2024-03-27T08:53:49Z")

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Hi aleccoder, welcome to the community!

Based on the logs it doesn't seem to be anything to do with the proxy, the IP seems to be static for AWS EC2: [Understanding EC2 Instance Metadata Service V2 (IMDSv2) and Its Application | by Jason Anderson | Mar, 2024 | Medium](https://medium.com/@linglijunmail/understanding-ec2-instance-metadata-service-v2-imdsv2-and-its-application-4ae4f1175b78)

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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 24, 2024, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-uses-configured-proxy-to-get-metadata-apis/356203/3 "2024-04-24T10:54:18Z")

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