Initiate Fleet setup

Base URL: 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

Authentication

Api key

Authorization: <value>

These APIs use key-based authentication. You must create an API key and use the encoded value in the request header. For example: Authorization: ApiKey base64AccessApiKey

Basic

Authorization: Basic <credentials>

Header parameters

Responses

Fleet setup completed

application/json

Bad Request

application/json

Internal Server Error

application/json

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

Examples

Request Console 1 / 2 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

POST kbn:/api/fleet/setup

Generated from the API spec

curl Shell

curl -X POST "${KIBANA_URL}/api/fleet/setup" \
  -H "kbn-xsrf: true" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}"

Generated from the API spec

Response

Fleet initialized successfully with no non-fatal errors

{
  "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
}