Elasticsearch special agent exited with code 1

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I’m using CheckMK raw edition 2.3.0p30

I followed the steps to configure a host to monitor an elastic cluster: created a host, no IP, no checkMK agent but all special agents.
Configured Other Integrations → Elasticsearch and created a rule for my host with the relevant credentials, https, port 9200 etc.

However when I do service discovery in the UI I get the error:
[special_elasticsearch] Agent exited with code 1.

As the site user I ran cmk -D which got me the agent command being used.

I ran that command (simply copied and pasted the output in the cmk -D command) and it worked, data is returned, so the credentials are correct and the configuration would seem to be correct.

But it does not work in the CheckMK UI.

Is it possible to see the output/progress of the special agent in the UI because if it works from the command line but not the UI I need to be able to see what it is doing when the UI is calling it.

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I had the same exit 1 error too. In my case it was because the --stats ‘*’ parameter. Removed it and it seems to work.

cmk -d <host> --log-to-stdout

Gave me extra information btw.