# Unable to install Fleet on 8.6.0

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-fleet-on-8-6-0/323528
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 19, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-fleet-on-8-6-0/323528 "2023-01-19T15:27:29Z")
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### Author: ![gyterpena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9a28c/32.png) [@gyterpena](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyterpena)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-fleet-on-8-6-0/323528/1 "2023-01-19T15:27:29Z")

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Hello I'm unable to install/initiate fleet on our kibana. I get below error message

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/9/09ac8dbaec0459553fe94a456cbba8e4930d137f.png)

Debug logs for plugin.fleet

```auto
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:35.651+00:00","message":"Telemetry is not opted-in.","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet.telemetry_events"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"196e605b1e705f4c3dd6daf89ec8b11e"},"transaction":{"id":"55650687dbbf4a7b"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.348+00:00","message":"Beginning fleet setup","log":{"level":"INFO","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.350+00:00","message":"Setting Fleet server config","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.361+00:00","message":"Setting up Fleet download source","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.367+00:00","message":"Setting up Fleet Sever Hosts","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.372+00:00","message":"Setting up Fleet outputs","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.385+00:00","message":"Setting up Fleet Elasticsearch assets","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.386+00:00","message":"Creating Fleet component template and ingest pipeline","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.399+00:00","message":"Setting up initial Fleet packages","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.538+00:00","message":"kicking off bulk install of endpoint, synthetics","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.564+00:00","message":"Running required package policies upgrades for managed policies","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.648+00:00","message":"Upgrade Fleet package install versions","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.694+00:00","message":"Upgrade Agent policy schema version","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.931+00:00","message":"retrieved installed package system-1.6.4 from cache","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:41.953+00:00","message":"retrieved installed package fleet_server-1.1.0 from cache","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:42.102+00:00","message":"retrieved installed package elastic_agent-1.3.0 from cache","log":{"level":"DEBUG","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:42.119+00:00","message":"Unable to get fleet server hosts for policy 90fefba0-bfa9-11eb-a24e-418bcd7279fc: Default Fleet Server host is not setup","log":{"level":"WARN","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}
{"service":{"node":{"roles":["background_tasks","ui"]}},"ecs":{"version":"8.4.0"},"@timestamp":"2023-01-19T15:20:42.317+00:00","message":"Invalid top-level package manifest: one or more fields missing of name, version, description, title, format_version, owner","log":{"level":"ERROR","logger":"plugins.fleet"},"process":{"pid":10645},"trace":{"id":"97e68b7606568d13c321045886eb5b5b"},"transaction":{"id":"0b24dd5a1d204e9e"}}

```

Any idea how to solve this?

Many Thanks.

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### Author: ![gyterpena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9a28c/32.png) [@gyterpena](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyterpena)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-fleet-on-8-6-0/323528/2 "2023-01-24T15:19:49Z")

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Fixed issue by deleting all packages and policies in fleet(they were tested some time in 2020 and 2021.  
Referenced [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-initialize-fleet-in-v8-0-0/296968/4) post  
[This](https://petstore.swagger.io/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/kibana/8.6/x-pack/plugins/fleet/common/openapi/bundled.json) api documentation

And this API calls.

> Blockquote  
> curl -k -X POST -u USER:PASSWORD [https://localhost:5601/api/fleet/package\_policies/delete](https://localhost:5601/api/fleet/package_policies/delete) -H 'kbn-xsrf: xyz' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '  
> {  
> "packagePolicyIds": [  
> "policy-ID"  
> ],  
> "force": true  
> }  
> '

> Blockquote  
> curl -k -X DELETE -u USER:PASSWORD [https://localhost:5601/api/fleet/epm/packages/"package-name"/"package-version"](https://localhost:5601/api/fleet/epm/packages/%22package-name%22/%22package-version%22) -H 'kbn-xsrf: xyz'

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-fleet-on-8-6-0/323528/3 "2023-02-21T15:20:37Z")

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