Sensu agent doesn't connect with the backend

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I’d look at @palourde’s answer in this other post:

How to get "Authorization: Bearer $SENSU_TOKEN"?

Hi @masifpak, If you just need to manually query the API, you could export your user access token to your environment variables and use that as the bearer token; keep in mind that this access token is valid for a maximum of 5 minutes so you might need to refresh it often. Here’s how you could use it: $ eval $(sensuctl env) $ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENSU_ACCESS_TOKEN" http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/[...] Alternatively, you could create and use an API key to authenticate against the API if …

The backend, with a couple of exceptions, requires authing to get any info, you’ll need to either use your token, or create an API key. See /auth - Sensu Docs