# Error from server (Timeout): error when creating "STDIN": Timeout: request did not complete within requested timeout 30s

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [August 25, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680 "2019-08-25T23:40:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/1 "2019-08-25T23:40:36Z")

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Hello World!

I'm trying to follow [Quickstart | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes [0.9] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-quickstart.html):

[Deploy ECK in your Kubernetes cluster](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-quickstart.html#k8s-deploy-eck)

```
$ kubectl apply -f https://download.elastic.co/downloads/eck/0.9.0/all-in-one.yaml
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/apmservers.apm.k8s.elastic.co created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/elasticsearches.elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/trustrelationships.elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/kibanas.kibana.k8s.elastic.co created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/elastic-operator created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/elastic-operator created
namespace/elastic-system created
statefulset.apps/elastic-operator created
secret/webhook-server-secret created
serviceaccount/elastic-operator created
$
$ kubectl -n elastic-system logs statefulset.apps/elastic-operator | tail
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.8577778,"logger":"kubebuilder.controller","msg":"Starting Controller","controller":"license-controller"}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.8577247,"logger":"kubebuilder.webhook","msg":"installing webhook configuration in cluster"}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.957982,"logger":"kubebuilder.controller","msg":"Starting workers","controller":"apmserver-controller","worker count":1}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.958148,"logger":"kubebuilder.controller","msg":"Starting workers","controller":"kibana-association-controller","worker count":1}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.958176,"logger":"kubebuilder.controller","msg":"Starting workers","controller":"kibana-controller","worker count":1}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.9581378,"logger":"kubebuilder.controller","msg":"Starting workers","controller":"license-controller","worker count":1}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.9582195,"logger":"kubebuilder.controller","msg":"Starting workers","controller":"apm-es-association-controller","worker count":1}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.958255,"logger":"kubebuilder.controller","msg":"Starting workers","controller":"trial-controller","worker count":1}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.9582841,"logger":"kubebuilder.controller","msg":"Starting workers","controller":"elasticsearch-controller","worker count":1}
{"level":"info","ts":1566775664.9925923,"logger":"kubebuilder.webhook","msg":"starting the webhook server."}
$ 

```

[Deploy the Elasticsearch cluster](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-quickstart.html#k8s-deploy-elasticsearch)

```
$ cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
> apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1alpha1
> kind: Elasticsearch
> metadata:
> name: quickstart
> spec:
> version: 7.2.0
> nodes:
> - nodeCount: 1
> config:
> node.master: true
> node.data: true
> node.ingest: true
> EOF
Error from server (Timeout): error when creating "STDIN": Timeout: request did not complete within requested timeout 30s
$ 

```

How does one troubleshoot ECK?

Please advise.

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/2 "2019-08-25T23:41:24Z")

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```
$ kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"15", GitVersion:"v1.15.3", GitCommit:"2d3c76f9091b6bec110a5e63777c332469e0cba2", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-08-19T11:13:54Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"13+", GitVersion:"v1.13.7-gke.19", GitCommit:"bebe882824db5431820e3d59851c8fb52cb41675", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-07-26T00:09:47Z", GoVersion:"go1.11.5b4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces=true
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
elastic-system elastic-operator-0 1/1 Running 1 13m
gitlab-managed-apps certmanager-cert-manager-6df979599b-rvhgg 1/1 Running 0 18m
gitlab-managed-apps ingress-nginx-ingress-controller-7cf6944677-bnlkh 1/1 Running 0 19m
gitlab-managed-apps ingress-nginx-ingress-default-backend-7f7bf55777-qxzch 1/1 Running 0 19m
gitlab-managed-apps prometheus-kube-state-metrics-5d5958bc-5mpcz 1/1 Running 0 17m
gitlab-managed-apps prometheus-prometheus-server-5c476cc89-xz25r 2/2 Running 0 17m
gitlab-managed-apps runner-gitlab-runner-767dc4d987-2zvgq 1/1 Running 0 16m
gitlab-managed-apps tiller-deploy-5c85978967-fjz2b 1/1 Running 0 21m
kube-system event-exporter-v0.2.4-5f88c66fb7-r9hnm 2/2 Running 0 25m
kube-system fluentd-gcp-scaler-59b7b75cd7-t72bn 1/1 Running 0 25m
kube-system fluentd-gcp-v3.2.0-bpn88 2/2 Running 0 24m
kube-system heapster-v1.6.1-7447959494-fz56j 3/3 Running 0 24m
kube-system kube-dns-6987857fdb-6kffz 4/4 Running 0 25m
kube-system kube-dns-autoscaler-bb58c6784-hvnth 1/1 Running 0 25m
kube-system kube-proxy-gke-test-default-pool-590b06f4-x9r8 1/1 Running 0 25m
kube-system l7-default-backend-fd59995cd-9tz2n 1/1 Running 0 25m
kube-system metrics-server-v0.3.1-57c75779f-dk76z 2/2 Running 0 24m
kube-system prometheus-to-sd-98mlh 1/1 Running 0 25m
$
```

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/3 "2019-08-26T15:30:25Z")

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```
[
 {
   "protoPayload": {
     "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.audit.AuditLog",
     "status": {
       "code": 4,
       "message": "DEADLINE_EXCEEDED"
     },
     "authenticationInfo": {
       "principalEmail": "X@X.X"
     },
     "requestMetadata": {
       "callerIp": "X.X.X.X",
       "callerSuppliedUserAgent": "kubectl/v1.15.3 (darwin/amd64) kubernetes/2d3c76f",
       "requestAttributes": {},
       "destinationAttributes": {}
     },
     "serviceName": "k8s.io",
     "methodName": "co.elastic.k8s.elasticsearch.v1alpha1.elasticsearches.create",
     "authorizationInfo": [
       {
         "resource": "elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1alpha1/namespaces/default/elasticsearches",
         "permission": "co.elastic.k8s.elasticsearch.v1alpha1.elasticsearches.create",
         "granted": true,
         "resourceAttributes": {}
       }
     ],
     "resourceName": "elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1alpha1/namespaces/default/elasticsearches"
   },
   "insertId": "a699227c-78aa-4184-ba96-695927a26e12",
   "resource": {
     "type": "k8s_cluster",
     "labels": {
       "project_id": "X-X-X",
       "cluster_name": "test",
       "location": "us-east4-a"
     }
   },
   "timestamp": "2019-08-26T15:25:23.900097Z",
   "labels": {
     "authorization.k8s.io/reason": "",
     "authorization.k8s.io/decision": "allow"
   },
   "logName": "projects/X-X-X/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity",
   "operation": {
     "id": "a699227c-78aa-4184-ba96-695927a26e12",
     "producer": "k8s.io",
     "first": true,
     "last": true
   },
   "receiveTimestamp": "2019-08-26T15:25:34.316862823Z"
 }
]
```

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/4 "2019-08-29T14:05:15Z")

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per [Error from server (NotFound): services "quickstart-es-http" not found - #16 by Anya\_Sabo](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-notfound-services-quickstart-es-http-not-found/193658/16), workaround:

> kubectl delete [validatingwebhookconfigurations.admissionregistration.k8s.io](http://validatingwebhookconfigurations.admissionregistration.k8s.io) validating-webhook-configuration

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/5 "2019-09-07T18:24:20Z")

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> <https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/issues/1673>

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**Author:** ![sebgl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sebgl/32/48702_2.png) [@sebgl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sebgl)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/6 "2019-09-12T12:48:18Z")

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Hey @alexus,

Is there maybe a firewall rule (or similar) in place on your GKE cluster that would prevent Kubernetes apiserver to reach the operator validation HTTP webhook (port 9876)?

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**Author:** ![michael.morello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael.morello/32/47448_2.png) [@michael.morello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michael.morello)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/7 "2019-09-12T13:48:25Z")

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I think this one has been solved: [https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/issues/1673](https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/issues/1673)

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/8 "2019-09-12T19:36:44Z")

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per link that I comment before your reply, for private cluster there is a need for firewall tcp:9443), which after creating it, eck doesn't timeout anymore...

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/9 "2019-09-12T19:36:56Z")

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that's same link as I posted in my comment) not sure if I'd call it resolved exactly, more like work around... at very least it's not documented properly anywhere...

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**Author:** ![Anya\_Sabo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anya_sabo/32/49903_2.png) [@Anya\_Sabo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anya_Sabo)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/10 "2019-09-12T20:47:03Z")

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This is mentioned in the troubleshooting docs:

> <https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.asciidoc#webhook-troubleshooting>

Though it may be worthwhile to be more explicit with some popular providers. Definitely open to suggestions.

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/11 "2020-03-31T20:58:21Z")

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yes, I believe that would be very beneficial for a lot of folks out there (instead of banging their head against the wall)

also, since your link is 404 already, I'm including new up to date link

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/master/k8s-webhook-troubleshooting.html#k8s-webhook-troubleshooting](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/master/k8s-webhook-troubleshooting.html#k8s-webhook-troubleshooting)

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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 4, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-from-server-timeout-error-when-creating-stdin-timeout-request-did-not-complete-within-requested-timeout-30s/196680/12 "2022-11-04T07:22:46Z")

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