diff --git a/x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index 3bf4ce446094..1f0a3486108e 100644
--- a/x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 - Fixed issue when unversioned home is set and invoked watcher failing with ENOENT {issue}25371[25371]
 - Fixed Elastic Agent: expecting Dict and received *transpiler.Key for '0' {issue}24453[24453]
 - Fix AckBatch to do nothing when no actions passed {pull}25562[25562]
+- Add error log entry when listener creation fails {issue}23483[23482]
 
 ==== New features
 
diff --git a/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/agent/control/server/server.go b/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/agent/control/server/server.go
index 25db5688c8e7..de7d5ca0f65b 100644
--- a/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/agent/control/server/server.go
+++ b/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/agent/control/server/server.go
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ func (s *Server) Start() error {
 
 	lis, err := createListener(s.logger)
 	if err != nil {
+		s.logger.Errorf("unable to create listener: %s", err)
 		return err
 	}
 	s.listener = lis