# Unable to deploy elastic agent on kubernetes as daemonset

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-deploy-elastic-agent-on-kubernetes-as-daemonset/309931>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-agent\
**Created:** [July 18, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-deploy-elastic-agent-on-kubernetes-as-daemonset/309931 "2022-07-18T17:20:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-deploy-elastic-agent-on-kubernetes-as-daemonset/309931/1 "2022-07-18T17:20:38Z")

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Hi,

I'm having some issue trying to deploy elastic agent to monitor kubernetes as a daemonset. Please see logs from the pod as following. Greatly appreciate some guidance.

{"log.level":"warn","@timestamp":"2022-07-18T17:14:14.017Z","log.logger":"tls","log.origin":{"file.name":"tlscommon/tls\_config.go","file.line":104},"message":"SSL/TLS verifications disabled.","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}  
{"log.level":"info","@timestamp":"2022-07-18T17:14:14.798Z","log.origin":{"file.name":"cmd/enroll\_cmd.go","file.line":471},"message":"Starting enrollment to URL: [https://45ef1f510e2d48e5829d451a2bc24879.fleet.asia-southeast1.gcp.elastic-cloud.com:443/","ecs.version":"1.6.0](https://45ef1f510e2d48e5829d451a2bc24879.fleet.asia-southeast1.gcp.elastic-cloud.com:443/%22,%22ecs.version%22:%221.6.0)"}  
{"log.level":"warn","@timestamp":"2022-07-18T17:14:14.899Z","log.logger":"tls","log.origin":{"file.name":"tlscommon/tls\_config.go","file.line":104},"message":"SSL/TLS verifications disabled.","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}  
{"log.level":"warn","@timestamp":"2022-07-18T17:14:24.902Z","log.logger":"transport","log.origin":{"file.name":"transport/tcp.go","file.line":52},"message":"DNS lookup failure "45ef1f510e2d48e5829d451a2bc24879.fleet.asia-southeast1.gcp.elastic-cloud.com": lookup [45ef1f510e2d48e5829d451a2bc24879.fleet.asia-southeast1.gcp.elastic-cloud.com](http://45ef1f510e2d48e5829d451a2bc24879.fleet.asia-southeast1.gcp.elastic-cloud.com) on 10.96.0.10:53: read udp 10.128.0.36:38925-\>10.96.0.10:53: read: connection refused","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}  
Error: fail to enroll: fail to execute request to fleet-server: lookup [45ef1f510e2d48e5829d451a2bc24879.fleet.asia-southeast1.gcp.elastic-cloud.com](http://45ef1f510e2d48e5829d451a2bc24879.fleet.asia-southeast1.gcp.elastic-cloud.com) on 10.96.0.10:53: read udp 10.128.0.36:38925-\>10.96.0.10:53: read: connection refused  
For help, please see our troubleshooting guide at [Troubleshoot common problems | Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide [8.3] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/8.3/fleet-troubleshooting.html)  
Error: enrollment failed: exit status 1  
For help, please see our troubleshooting guide at [Troubleshoot common problems | Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide [8.3] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/8.3/fleet-troubleshooting.html)

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**Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-deploy-elastic-agent-on-kubernetes-as-daemonset/309931/2 "2022-08-15T17:21:28Z")

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