Initiate Fleet setup

Server: https://{kibana_url}

POST /api/fleet/setup

Initialize Fleet and create the necessary Elasticsearch resources for Fleet to operate. Safe to call multiple times (idempotent). Returns the initialization status and any non-fatal errors encountered during setup.

[Required authorization] Route required privileges: fleet-agents-read OR fleet-agent-policies-read OR fleet-settings-read OR fleet-setup.

Responses

Fleet setup completed

application/json

Bad Request

application/json

Internal Server Error

application/json

Examples

Fleet initialized successfully with no non-fatal errors

Request Console 1 / 2 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

POST /api/fleet/setup

curl Shell

curl -X POST "https://{kibana_url}/api/fleet/setup" \
  -H "kbn-xsrf: true"

Response

{
  "isInitialized": true,
  "nonFatalErrors": []
}

{
  "error": "Bad Request",
  "message": "An error message describing what went wrong",
  "statusCode": 400
}

{
  "error": "Internal Server Error",
  "message": "An error message describing what went wrong",
  "statusCode": 500
}