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hi guys i have everything set up fine from `prefect server start` and registered some flows but when i run them they never start (always “late”)

i have also started agents with `prefect agent start` and `prefect agent start docker` but the agents just keep polling and fail to find any flows

how can i check that the server sees the agent or the agents see the servers?

not sure if this is related but when i do `prefect get flow-runs`
```requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: <http://localhost:4200/graphql>```

the graphql API says there are no agents
```curl '<http://dev.prefect.i.ghpr.asia:4200/graphql>' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'DNT: 1' -H 'Origin: <http://dev.prefect.i.ghpr.asia:4200>' --data-binary '{"query":"# Write your query or mutati\n{\n  agent {created}\n}\n"}' --compressed```


```{
  "data": {
    "agent": []
  }
}```

fixed by setting
```[server]
endpoint = "url"```
in `config.toml`

the agent seems to be connected to the server because it starts complaining when i shut down the server

but when it is connected it says there are no flow runs

ah no this time it was the lack of matching labels, all good now

this is really frustrating, i don’t know why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t

Hey Sark, I haven’t forgotten about this thread, it’s just very late on the east coast. I’ll follow up with you tomorrow!

thanks dylan, no worries, we do indeed have a big timezone difference :slightly_smiling_face:

things have improved somewhat when i do `prefect agent start -a <http://localhost:4200>` now the jobs are always submitted, but somehow always still get stuck in that submitted state forever

ah one more thing: all the labels for the job have to be present in the labels corresponding to the agent