Running Fleet Server on localhost

Elastic Stack Elastic Agent
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Is it possible to run a Fleet Server on the same host as Elastic and Kibana?

I`m using basic Elasticsearch and Kibana on my VM and I would like to setup Fleet and Agents for use with Elastic Security

How can i configure my Fleet Server Host URL and install the Fleet Server for this kind of deployment? Is there a better way to do this?

I`ve been trying to configure https://127.0.0.1:8220 as my URL but somehow during installation the requests of my fleet-server go to 10.50.0.124, an unreachable host.

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It can be done. We are running a single node instance on a VM similar to what you are trying to do.

We do not use 127.0.0.1 (=localhost) however and I think that’s where your issues start. If you want to add agents to the Fleet Server other than the VM itself, you will need to use a different IP address.

We tried to use a private IP address, but ran into some routing issues when connecting agents, so we moved to using a public IP address and a publicly registerred hostname and it all works like a charm.

Fleet Server collects logs from several other VMs, the firewall and our M365 tenant