# GKE Elastic Agent, Ingest pipeline permissions question **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 14, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gke-elastic-agent-ingest-pipeline-permissions-question/370571 "2024-11-14T18:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gke-elastic-agent-ingest-pipeline-permissions-question/370571/2 "2024-11-14T19:22:56Z")
> [@marksie1988](#): > > I cant for the life of me figure out where i can assign these privileges so that it is able to create the index, does anyone know? If I'm not wrong you cannot use an Elastic Agent managed by Fleet to write into a custom index like that. Check this [answer](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-fleet-server-cannot-create-write-to-index-insufficient-permissions/294181/2) to a similar question. > No, it is not possible. The fleet-server service account is only able to write to indices that are managed by fleet, and there is no way to change that. The alternative would be to write into something that the service account has permission, for example a data stream starting with `logs-*`. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gke-elastic-agent-ingest-pipeline-permissions-question/370571)._