# Kubernetes dashbords are not showing any metrics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kubernetes-dashbords-are-not-showing-any-metrics/356799>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Created:** [April 4, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kubernetes-dashbords-are-not-showing-any-metrics/356799 "2024-04-04T16:24:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![sichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@sichi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sichi)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kubernetes-dashbords-are-not-showing-any-metrics/356799/1 "2024-04-04T16:24:14Z")

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Hello there'  
I'm a newbie to elasticsearch. I have a k8s cluster which I want to monitor through the fleet integration. I have the elk with fleet established. I have elastic-agent running on my nodes as linux agent and not as pods and they,re reporting basic system metrics. I also deployed kube-state-metrics inside of the cluster as pods. I can't figure out what's missing, my dashboarrds are not showing any data. Also when I look in teh documentation I can see some people deploying elastic-agent inside of the cluster as pods. is this mandatory? anyone please would be willing to help. Thnak you.