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Elastic Cloud: Elastic Agent enrollment/check-in failures on 9.5.3 (and 9.4.6) with Fleet remote Elasticsearch output

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September 2026 9 Major incident

We've identified a bug in Fleet Server 9.5.3 (also present in 9.4.6) that can cause Elastic Agents to crash-loop and go offline when Fleet pushes a configuration update, including enrollment, a policy change, or a routine revision bump. This only affects policies that use Fleet's remote Elasticsearch output feature. Recommendation: If you use Fleet's remote Elasticsearch output, do not upgrade to 9.5.3 or 9.4.6 until a fixed version is available. If you're already on an affected version and experiencing agent check-in failures, contact Support for remediation steps. A fix has been merged and will ship in the next 9.5.x and 9.4.x releases. Known Issue documentation: fleet-server#7791, elastic-agent#16542.

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20:44 UTC

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Lasted 7d 13h

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What happened?

We've identified a bug in Fleet Server 9.5.3 (also present in 9.4.6) that can cause Elastic Agents to crash-loop and go offline when Fleet pushes a configuration update, including enrollment, a policy change, or a routine revision bump. This only affects policies that use Fleet's remote Elasticsearch output feature. Recommendation: If you use Fleet's remote Elasticsearch output, do not upgrade to 9.5.3 or 9.4.6 until a fixed version is available. If you're already on an affected version and experiencing agent check-in failures, contact Support for remediation steps. A fix has been merged and will ship in the next 9.5.x and 9.4.x releases. Known Issue documentation: fleet-server#7791, elastic-agent#16542.

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