diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/fleet/common/types/index.ts b/x-pack/plugins/fleet/common/types/index.ts
index dfee7502c4ed1..95e1f07e69749 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/fleet/common/types/index.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/fleet/common/types/index.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import type {
 
 export interface FleetConfigType {
   enabled: boolean;
+  isAirGapped: boolean;
   registryUrl?: string;
   registryProxyUrl?: string;
   agents: {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/config.ts b/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/config.ts
index 0a817e0ccbfed..0ab1320650920 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/config.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/config.ts
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ export const config: PluginConfigDescriptor = {
   ],
   schema: schema.object(
     {
+      isAirGapped: schema.maybe(schema.boolean({ defaultValue: false })),
       registryUrl: schema.maybe(schema.uri({ scheme: ['http', 'https'] })),
       registryProxyUrl: schema.maybe(schema.uri({ scheme: ['http', 'https'] })),
       agents: schema.object({
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agents/versions.test.ts b/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agents/versions.test.ts
index 15fa38d4949bc..9f8a5091e3ee2 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agents/versions.test.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agents/versions.test.ts
@@ -8,9 +8,15 @@
 import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
 
 import fetch from 'node-fetch';
+import type { DeepPartial } from 'utility-types';
+
+import type { FleetConfigType } from '../../../public/plugin';
+
+import { getAvailableVersions } from './versions';
 
 let mockKibanaVersion = '300.0.0';
-let mockConfig = {};
+let mockConfig: DeepPartial<FleetConfigType> = {};
+
 jest.mock('../app_context', () => {
   const { loggerMock } = jest.requireActual('@kbn/logging-mocks');
   return {
@@ -33,8 +39,6 @@ const emptyResponse = {
   text: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(JSON.stringify({})),
 } as any;
 
-import { getAvailableVersions } from './versions';
-
 describe('getAvailableVersions', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     mockedReadFile.mockReset();
@@ -204,4 +208,15 @@ describe('getAvailableVersions', () => {
     // Should sort, uniquify and filter out versions < 7.17
     expect(res).toEqual(['8.1.0', '8.0.0', '7.17.0']);
   });
+
+  it('should not fetch from product versions API when air-gapped config is set', async () => {
+    mockKibanaVersion = '300.0.0';
+    mockedReadFile.mockResolvedValue(`["8.1.0", "8.0.0", "7.17.0", "7.16.0"]`);
+
+    mockConfig = { isAirGapped: true };
+    const res = await getAvailableVersions({ ignoreCache: true });
+
+    expect(res).toEqual(['8.1.0', '8.0.0', '7.17.0']);
+    expect(mockedFetch).not.toBeCalled();
+  });
 });
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agents/versions.ts b/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agents/versions.ts
index b5a09bc99e2cb..39941e2d38fc9 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agents/versions.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/fleet/server/services/agents/versions.ts
@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ export const getAvailableVersions = async ({
 };
 
 async function fetchAgentVersionsFromApi() {
+  // If the airgapped flag is set, do not attempt to reach out to the product versions API
+  if (appContextService.getConfig()?.isAirGapped) {
+    return [];
+  }
+
   const logger = appContextService.getLogger();
 
   const options = {