[MAC]: Agent upgrade failed for mac agent while upgrading from 7.17.21 BC1> 8.13.3 BC2.

[amolnater-qasource]

Kibana Build details:

VERSION: 8.13.3 BC2
BUILD: 72204
COMMIT: 003e4a42946390c2eb93dfb3586498ce7520a530
Artifact Link: https://staging.elastic.co/7.17.21-d107d3c3/downloads/beats/elastic-agent/elastic-agent-7.17.21-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

Host OS: MAC Studio

Preconditions:

1. 8.13.3 BC2 Kibana cloud environment should be available.
2. 7.17.21 agent should be installed.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add 8.13.3 BC agent binary to the fleet settings: https://staging.elastic.co/8.13.3-f64df5ce/downloads/
2. Trigger upgrade for 7.17.21 agent and observe agent upgrade failed for mac agent.

Screenshots:

Expected Result:
Agent should upgrade successfully for mac agent while upgrading from 7.17.21 BC1> 8.13.3 BC2.

Diagnostics:
elastic-agent-diagnostics-2024-04-30T07-12-54Z-00.zip

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/elastic-agent-control-plane (Team:Elastic-Agent-Control-Plane)

[amolnater-qasource]

@manishgupta-qasource Please review.

[manishgupta-qasource]

Secondary review for this ticket is Done

[pierrehilbert]

Hey @amolnater-qasource,
I didn't check in details for know but could it be related to #4613?

[amolnater-qasource]

Hi @pierrehilbert

Yes, it could be related to this issue as MAC Studio also requires aarch64 artifacts from 8.13.0 onwards.

Thanks!

[cmacknz]

Yes I see defend in the policy, almost certainly this is related to #4613.

If you remove defend from the policy does it succeed? If so its a known issue.

[amolnater-qasource]

Hi @cmacknz

Thank you for the update.

Yes, we have revalidated this by upgrading the agent from 7.17.21 BC1>8.13.3 BC2 without Elastic Defend and the agent upgraded successfully.

Screenshots:

We can close this issue if the reported issue already exists.

Please let us know if anything else is required from our end.
Thanks!!

[cmacknz]

Thanks for confirming! We'll use #4613 to track this, closing.