Issue with Lab 7.2 "Data Streams" – Agent Policy and Fleet Server Setup

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I'm currently taking the Elasticsearch Engineer (On-Demand) course, and I'm working on lab 7.2: "Data Streams". The instructions ask to create an integration that should automatically generate a data stream. However, I'm facing several issues even after following the steps carefully:

  1. When I reach the "Where to add this integration" section and select "Existing hosts", the "stack-monitoring-policy" Agent Policy does not appear in the list.

  2. When I click "Save and deploy changes", I don’t see the same confirmation window shown in the tutorial. There's no prompt indicating that an agent will be updated, and the "Save and deploy changes" button is also missing.

  3. Additionally, a warning appears saying "Requires root privileges" and "Policy secrets are disabled", along with a message suggesting that I need to update the Fleet Server.

My questions:

  • Is there something missing or incorrect in the lab instructions?

  • Do I need to create the Agent Policy (e.g., "stack-monitoring-policy") manually beforehand?

  • Do I need to set up a Fleet Server before proceeding with the integration?

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Hi there…can you please confirm that you are on Kibana 2 (cluster2)? I think you might be on Kibana 1.

The requires root privileges will still show up but will not be a problem. The "stack-monitoring-policy" should be on Kibana 2.

Let us know.
Thanks… Jennifer

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Hi Jennifer,

Thank you for your response and clarification — you nailed it! I completely missed the detail about needing to use kibana2 instead of kibana1, and that was exactly the issue.

Really appreciate your help!

Best regards,
Jesús Ángel.

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Glad I could help. !