# Elastic Observability

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/82.md?page=109

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## [How to Analyse requests per minute and transactions per minute](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analyse-requests-per-minute-and-transactions-per-minute/247016)

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**Author:** [@rahulnama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulnama)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-analyse-requests-per-minute-and-transactions-per-minute/247016 "2020-09-02T19:20:33Z")

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Kibana version: 7.8.0 Elasticsearch version: 7.8.0 APM Server version: 7.8.0 Hi Team I've installed APM and everything seems to be working fine. However, I'm unable to understand the number of requests per second fo…

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## [PHP Agent timeframe](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-agent-timeframe/247270)

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**Author:** [@jasonk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasonk)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-agent-timeframe/247270 "2020-09-02T17:25:54Z")

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Just wanting to know if there's any timeframe for when a production ready PHP Agent will be available. Thanks

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## [APM license](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-license/247195)

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**Author:** [@ohaddahan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ohaddahan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-license/247195 "2020-09-02T12:47:44Z")

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I'm trying to understand the scope of the "Basic - Free forever plan" https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions . I downloaded APM (and Kibana and Elasticsearch) and deployed them on premise. All worked fine, after a coupl…

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## [Unable to create apikey in APMServer after installing 7.9](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-apikey-in-apmserver-after-installing-7-9/246659)

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**Author:** [@iorfix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iorfix)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2020, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-apikey-in-apmserver-after-installing-7-9/246659 "2020-09-02T09:48:56Z")

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I created a new 7.9 installation on my lab environment. I tried to create apikeys on APM Server, using documented command, but I got a couple of problems: apm-server now runs under apm-server user, and launch apikey c…

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## [Settings Log traceId](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/settings-log-traceid/246665)

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**Author:** [@Kirtash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kirtash)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/settings-log-traceid/246665 "2020-09-02T06:50:21Z")

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Good morning, I don't know if it is a bug but I would like confirm it. I have a configuration of Logs where I added one pattern more. With this change I can see all the logs, but if i want see the trace of a transact…

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## [Error sending data to APM server: Unexpected end of file from server, response code is -1](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-data-to-apm-server-unexpected-end-of-file-from-server-response-code-is-1/247006)

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**Author:** [@ghesio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ghesio)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-data-to-apm-server-unexpected-end-of-file-from-server-response-code-is-1/247006 "2020-08-31T22:05:14Z")

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Hello! I'm experiencing this bug. I have the ELK stack configured with the APM server running on docker. Kibana version: 7.8.0 Elasticsearch version: 7.8.0 APM Server version: 7.8.0 APM Agent language and version: Ja…

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## [Elastic Ruby on Rails APM: Queue is full issue](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ruby-on-rails-apm-queue-is-full-issue/246793)

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**Author:** [@rahulnama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulnama)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ruby-on-rails-apm-queue-is-full-issue/246793 "2020-08-31T20:49:49Z")

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Hi Team I'm using APM version: 7.8.0 for ruby on rails app. I integrated this with prod and dev. However, for some reason I'm not able to see recent requests for prod site. Here are the logs in my app. I see queue is …

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## [Not getting hostnames on addition of more servers in metric beat](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-getting-hostnames-on-addition-of-more-servers-in-metric-beat/246930)

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**Author:** [@priyanshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/priyanshi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-getting-hostnames-on-addition-of-more-servers-in-metric-beat/246930 "2020-08-31T15:01:59Z")

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On addition of more servers on Metric beat i am getting dotted in map view. can someone please help how to get this corrected

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## [APM java agent and api\_key](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-and-api-key/245244)

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**Author:** [@GershonA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GershonA)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2020, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-and-api-key/245244 "2020-08-31T09:43:02Z")

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Hello All, I'm using elastic cloud service (7.8) and want to allow elastic-apm-agent-1.18.0.RC1 to use API key instead of secret\_token So, I create the key as following: POST /\_security/api\_key { "name"…

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## [APM agent reporting unusually high number of transactions](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-agent-reporting-unusually-high-number-of-transactions/246847)

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**Author:** [@manohar\_deepu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/manohar_deepu)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-agent-reporting-unusually-high-number-of-transactions/246847 "2020-08-31T08:20:26Z")

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Hi, APM agent is reporting lakhs of transactions for my service whereas we know the QPS for our service is around 1000 (across apis). This was with 100% sampling I have reduced the sampling to 1% with all body capturin…

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## [Does ES-APM support jetcd?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-es-apm-support-jetcd/246543)

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**Author:** [@starry-eyed-art](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/starry-eyed-art)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-es-apm-support-jetcd/246543 "2020-08-31T08:14:53Z")

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Whether ESAPM support jetcd, if you do not support it, if someone is already developing this function

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## [How to delete apm entries per service](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-apm-entries-per-service/246550)

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**Author:** [@manohar\_deepu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/manohar_deepu)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-apm-entries-per-service/246550 "2020-08-31T07:28:33Z")

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Hi, I have a requirement where I don't want to delete all the entires of APM after certain date, rather I want to delete apm index entries per service level based on dates. Is there lever from curator etc which helps m…

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## [Disable profiling apm-agent-java](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-profiling-apm-agent-java/246593)

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**Author:** [@Sergiusz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sergiusz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-profiling-apm-agent-java/246593 "2020-08-27T15:45:12Z")

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Hello, Starting from v1.14.0 Java APM Agent creates in the temporary folder the following files: /tmp/apm-activation-events-\*.bin /tmp/apm-traces-\*.jfr They are created regardless of the whether profiling is enabled/…

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## [Sourcemaps are not getting applied](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sourcemaps-are-not-getting-applied/244679)

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**Author:** [@Hamunaptroid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hamunaptroid)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sourcemaps-are-not-getting-applied/244679 "2020-08-27T12:16:31Z")

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Hello, I have been having problems with RUM agent. Stack traces are not shown. In Kibana there is just "stack trace is not available". In APM server I can see this error: 2020-08-11T09:35:34.035+0200 WARN \[stacktrace\] …

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## [How to debug apm agent](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-debug-apm-agent/246478)

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**Author:** [@manohar\_deepu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/manohar_deepu)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-debug-apm-agent/246478 "2020-08-27T11:30:12Z")

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Hi, I have integrated apm agents to my app but the data is not getting populated. All the apm server are behind an elb and the agent is point to elb. I have verified the app machine is able to connect to elb by running …

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## [How to write agent trace.id to application log file?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-write-agent-trace-id-to-application-log-file/246414)

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**Author:** [@wajika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wajika)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-write-agent-trace-id-to-application-log-file/246414 "2020-08-27T00:45:36Z")

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I want to associate the log with apm metric through trace.id.

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## [APM Server returns interleaved 503 and 202 responses on ES Cluster](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-returns-interleaved-503-and-202-responses-on-es-cluster/246424)

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**Author:** [@Samar\_Haider](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samar_Haider)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-returns-interleaved-503-and-202-responses-on-es-cluster/246424 "2020-08-26T09:28:24Z")

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I have setup Elastic APM which sends data to Elasticsearch. When I setup Elasticsearch with single instance, Elastic APM server working fine responding 202 response. When I setup Elasticsearch cluster(3 master, 3 data …

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## [New Unassigned shards getting created](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-unassigned-shards-getting-created/246392)

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**Author:** [@manohar\_deepu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/manohar_deepu)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-unassigned-shards-getting-created/246392 "2020-08-26T06:15:14Z")

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Hi, I have 1 data node, 2 masters/1 cordinators/2 ingestor/2 apm server/1 kibana machine in my production setup. On start of the cluster and after ingestion of apm data, my cluster health is yellow because I am seeing …

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## [Unable to load Elastic-APM ServiceMap](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-load-elastic-apm-servicemap/246380)

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**Author:** [@vishakh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vishakh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-load-elastic-apm-servicemap/246380 "2020-08-26T05:41:49Z")

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Kibana version: 7.8.0 Elasticsearch version: 7.8.0 APM Server version: 7.8.0 APM Agent language and version: Java OS Platform : Amazon Linux Tomcat Version : Server version: Apache Tomcat/8.5.57 Server built: Jul …

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## [Monitor SOAP response using with Heartbeat](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-soap-response-using-with-heartbeat/246298)

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**Author:** [@Santosh\_Patil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Santosh_Patil)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-soap-response-using-with-heartbeat/246298 "2020-08-26T04:35:46Z")

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MY SOAP XML Request: \<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:brm="http://x.x.…

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## [Kibana Alerting - Index Action](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerting-index-action/246197)

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**Author:** [@David\_McMurray](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_McMurray)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 25, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alerting-index-action/246197 "2020-08-25T16:24:44Z")

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Im a new ELK user taking advantage of the open source/free release due to budget constraints of COVID-19. I'm using the new open sourced kibana actions and alerts. I was wondering if it is possible to change what data is…

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## [Interacting with Zipkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/interacting-with-zipkin/246159)

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**Author:** [@Rietty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rietty)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 25, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/interacting-with-zipkin/246159 "2020-08-25T09:50:13Z")

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Hi, I'd like to read Elasticsearch Tracing Data by utilizing Openshift Zipkin. Has anyone had experience with this or how I would proceed?

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## [Kibana Alert for Pod frequently bounded](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alert-for-pod-frequently-bounded/243940)

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**Author:** [@jinkim59](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jinkim59)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 24, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-alert-for-pod-frequently-bounded/243940 "2020-08-24T15:20:17Z")

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I noticed some of pods are getting goes down and new one is created. What is the most suitable way to detect and set an alert for any K8s deployment that one or more of pods get frequently go down and new one created. …

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## [Export huge dataset (10+million entries) kibana / logstash?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-huge-dataset-10-million-entries-kibana-logstash/245782)

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**Author:** [@mmarteen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mmarteen)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 24, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-huge-dataset-10-million-entries-kibana-logstash/245782 "2020-08-24T14:22:18Z")

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First of all I'm fairly new to the elastic stack! I use the elastic APM to monitor an application. I have to export the collected dataset about 10+million entries. I already tried to set the kibanas xpack.reporting.cs…

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## [Automatic transaction time not aligned with real execution time](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-transaction-time-not-aligned-with-real-execution-time/245975)

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**Author:** [@zinsserzh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zinsserzh)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 24, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-transaction-time-not-aligned-with-real-execution-time/245975 "2020-08-24T08:38:35Z")

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Kibana version: 7.6.2 Elasticsearch version: 7.6.2 APM Server version: 7.9.0 APM Agent language and version: PHP commit 8eccf0b4657533d1848d5541a250096d2f436482 Browser version: N/A PHP version: 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.0…

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## [Adding custom field in fields.yml in APM](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-custom-field-in-fields-yml-in-apm/245961)

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**Author:** [@Shubhangi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shubhangi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 24, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-custom-field-in-fields-yml-in-apm/245961 "2020-08-24T06:04:17Z")

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Kibana version: 7.8 Elasticsearch version: 7.8 APM Server version: 7.7 APM Agent language and version: Java 1.9.0 Browser version: chrome Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from source, etc.) and…

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## [Which technology to use for custom metrics for node.js?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-technology-to-use-for-custom-metrics-for-node-js/245890)

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**Author:** [@DenProg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DenProg)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [August 23, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-technology-to-use-for-custom-metrics-for-node-js/245890 "2020-08-23T07:08:08Z")

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I want to watch some metrics in my nodejs app. Those metrics are some values (int, double, ...). I see the APM Node.js API supports only transactions and spans. So, which API should I use to watch the metrics in Kibana? …

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## [Collect Logs and Metrics from EKS control plane](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collect-logs-and-metrics-from-eks-control-plane/246000)

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**Author:** [@jinkim59](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jinkim59)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 22, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collect-logs-and-metrics-from-eks-control-plane/246000 "2020-08-22T22:52:39Z")

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As EKS is a managed AWS Kubernetes service, we can NOT install Elastic agents (FileBeat, MetricBeat, etc.) on a EKS control pane. Would you help me for the best way to collect control plane logging and metrics, and inde…

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## [Uptime Alerts just not works](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-alerts-just-not-works/245139)

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**Author:** [@alex-rn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alex-rn)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [August 21, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-alerts-just-not-works/245139 "2020-08-21T15:49:59Z")

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Hello, I have successfully configured Heartbeat with Uptime and everything works well. But I have a very strange issues with Kibana Alerts. See screenshots. In Uptime Alerts I can see and use only the "MATCHING MONI…

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## [Filebeat send json data to Elastiksearch isuue](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-send-json-data-to-elastiksearch-isuue/244860)

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**Author:** [@Partha\_Biswas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Partha_Biswas)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 21, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-send-json-data-to-elastiksearch-isuue/244860 "2020-08-21T09:32:01Z")

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I am using filebeat to send log data in ELK kibana. Log example:- error\_log.log {"type":"ERROR","errorType":"ERROR","message":"Error in add","others":{"error": "something went wrong","source":"/public/new/user"}} {"typ…

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