[Elastic Agent][question] How to trigger Unhealthy status for testing?

[manishgupta-qasource]

As per below comment
elastic/kibana#84962 (comment)

We need to make Agent into Unhealthy state to test the filters. Can a team member advise on the easiest way to trigger an Unhealthy state on an agent?

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/ingest-management (Team:Ingest Management)

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/agent (Team:Agent)

[ph]

@urso What do you think should be the experience here? should we allow some kind of debug tool?

[ph]

@michalpristas or @blakerouse Any tips for them?

[blakerouse]

I don't really have a way to do it in Elastic Agent. Could possible come up with a API call that would allow you to manipulate the .fleet-agents index to make it show up that way, for a short period of time.

[jen-huang]

@blakerouse Good point idea, I hadn't considered that.

@manishgupta-qasource / @muskangulati-qasource You can run the following query in Dev Tools to force an agent into Unhealthy status. Replace d0415977-c688-44c7-abe0-065887ddc52b with the agent ID you want to update. You can also skip the last_checkin field if your agent has already checked in at least once:

POST .fleet-agents/_update/d0415977-c688-44c7-abe0-065887ddc52b
{
  "doc": {
    "last_checkin": "2021-05-03T22:06:20Z",
    "last_checkin_status": "error"
  }
}

Forcing it like this will probably trigger other unintended effects, so please use this for UI testing only 😉

[muskangulati-qasource]

Hi @jen-huang,

Thank you for providing the steps for the same. Our query is now resolved and we were successful in updating the agent status from healthy to Unhealthy & back to healthy!!

Please find below the whole testing details.

Build Details:

Version: 7.13.0-SNAPSHOT
Commit: 62a98b97048b3639b8dfe7884776d95581dc1eb5
Build number: 40746

Refer Screenshots:

• Healthy Status:
  

• API hit to change agent status from Healthy to Unhealthy:
  

• Unhealthy status:
  

• API hit to change agent status from Unhealthy to Healthy:
  

Hence, we closing this ticket.

Thanks!!