# Elastic Observability **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/82.md?page=166 [Latest](https://discuss.elastic.co/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.elastic.co/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.elastic.co/tags.md) **Page:** 167 --- ## [APM feedback and questions](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-feedback-and-questions/127727)
**Author:** [@Edward99](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edward99)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-feedback-and-questions/127727 "2018-04-18T13:06:35Z")
Hi, We have spent some time trying out the APM server in the last 2 days. Since we are mostly a .NET shop, there isn't an official agent for us to try. As a result we are sending messages directly to the APM server thro… --- ## [Latest APM server package (6.2.3) on the Beats APT repository](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/latest-apm-server-package-6-2-3-on-the-beats-apt-repository/128157)
**Author:** [@farzadghanei.byte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/farzadghanei.byte)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/latest-apm-server-package-6-2-3-on-the-beats-apt-repository/128157 "2018-04-16T12:59:22Z")
Hello Following the APM server 6.2 installation guide using APT repo, after defining the Beats repository I noticed the available package version on the APT repo is only "6.0.0-rc2" while the manual download page provid… --- ## [APM node agent does not capture mysql queries](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-node-agent-does-not-capture-mysql-queries/127925)
**Author:** [@shaharyar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaharyar)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-node-agent-does-not-capture-mysql-queries/127925 "2018-04-13T13:04:40Z")
We setup APM agent in our nodejs application. It captures requests even made by other npm too (which is very good), but it does not capture any queries to mysql. We are using squelize as ORM to mysql. --- ## [Cannot index event publisher.Event (elasticsearch/client.go:502)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-index-event-publisher-event-elasticsearch-client-go-502/127502)
**Author:** [@shaharyar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaharyar)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-index-event-publisher-event-elasticsearch-client-go-502/127502 "2018-04-13T10:44:29Z")
I set up APM in my Nodejs Express app. It starts fine, creates a new index in elasticsearch. When API return errors it only logs first few errors in elasticsearch (3,4 or 7 sometimes, its random) and then on starts throw… --- ## [APM Custom Counters?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-custom-counters/127399)
**Author:** [@Edward99](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edward99)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-custom-counters/127399 "2018-04-12T11:40:17Z")
Hi, If I would like to have some custom counters (let's say numbers), how would that be represented in the context of Elastic APM? Unless I overlooked the REST API, seems like there is no way to add custom fields. The … --- ## [Weird specifc Flask App not sending monitoring data to APM](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/weird-specifc-flask-app-not-sending-monitoring-data-to-apm/127183)
**Author:** [@Maethorin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maethorin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/weird-specifc-flask-app-not-sending-monitoring-data-to-apm/127183 "2018-04-09T12:28:23Z")
Hi all, I have 3 Python Flask API running on AWS and a EC2 running ES and APM. 2 APIs are sending data to APM correctly, but one is not. It's weird, because all 3 API uses same Flask, Flask-RESTful and elastic-apm\[flas… --- ## [No document with transactions type: request in elasticsearch index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-document-with-transactions-type-request-in-elasticsearch-index/125581)
**Author:** [@Mehdi847](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehdi847)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-document-with-transactions-type-request-in-elasticsearch-index/125581 "2018-04-03T14:04:02Z")
Hi, After installing xpack to elasticsearch, i am able to discover , visualize, create dashboards with data coming in but From APM am unable to list/filter services, accessing apm with servicename modfied manually i… --- ## [Java APM integrated from inspectIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-apm-integrated-from-inspectit/126557)
**Author:** [@Andre\_Juharto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Juharto)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-apm-integrated-from-inspectit/126557 "2018-04-03T11:29:46Z")
Hello, is there anyone who tried using this inspectIT java agent integrated to elasticsearch APM? https://blog.novatec-gmbh.de/java-application-performance-management-elastic-stack/ Well, if anyone did, can you tell me… --- ## [APM UI not showing in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-ui-not-showing-in-kibana/126072)
**Author:** [@vaidabhishek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vaidabhishek)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-ui-not-showing-in-kibana/126072 "2018-03-30T12:51:35Z")
My Kibana stopped for some reason and when I restarted it, APM UI isn't showing up. Here's my configuration. Kibana (Version: 6.2.3) and APM-Server (Version 6.2.3) are running on same server. As you can see from att… --- ## [Filter out some transaction](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-out-some-transaction/125945)
**Author:** [@Thetortuga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thetortuga)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-out-some-transaction/125945 "2018-03-29T05:42:57Z")
Hi, I am using the Node JS APM agent and I am looking for a way to filter out some transaction based on url request. Using the addFilter method, I tried removing it through an Array.filter but I have an error cannot re… --- ## [APM Server is not working proper its giving error and no data found](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-is-not-working-proper-its-giving-error-and-no-data-found/125578)
**Author:** [@Krunal\_kalaria](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Krunal_kalaria)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-is-not-working-proper-its-giving-error-and-no-data-found/125578 "2018-03-27T04:38:15Z")
Hello Folks, I have an issue in kibana APM. I am using Elastic Stack 6.2 in RHEL 7. When i am running ./apm-server -e command then its giving me this error: Exiting: error loading config file: stat apm-server.yml: no… --- ## [Go Agent - Survey](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/go-agent-survey/124887)
**Author:** [@axw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/axw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/go-agent-survey/124887 "2018-03-21T01:57:24Z")
Hi folks, We've recently started working on support for Go applications: https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go. Although the Go support is fully functional, it's still very early in development -- we're calling it "p… --- ## [APM client drop queue if memory usage too big](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-client-drop-queue-if-memory-usage-too-big/119711)
**Author:** [@adobnikar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adobnikar)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-client-drop-queue-if-memory-usage-too-big/119711 "2018-03-16T15:32:44Z")
I am using npm package "elastic-apm-node" (APM agent) to log koa server requests and mysql quries. The problem is that sometimes the APM server is unavailable. When I do some big mysql queries the memory fills up quite… --- ## [Memory usage with elastic-apm-node and custom transactions](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-with-elastic-apm-node-and-custom-transactions/124229)
**Author:** [@tallakh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tallakh)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-with-elastic-apm-node-and-custom-transactions/124229 "2018-03-16T09:50:02Z")
Hi, We have started to use APM and elastic-apm-node to instrument our node application. We get a lot of great information from the express routes which has helped us a lot. We have recently started to track background … --- ## [PHP support?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-support/124053)
**Author:** [@jamiegood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamiegood)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-support/124053 "2018-03-15T12:20:23Z")
Hi, we use Kibana/ELK etc. We are currently looking at new relic etc for APM. However if Elastic APM had support for PHP then it would be a no brainer for us. Any plans to support PHP in the near future? --- ## [Distributed Tracing](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/distributed-tracing/123828)
**Author:** [@dicarlo2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dicarlo2)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/distributed-tracing/123828 "2018-03-14T03:28:07Z")
Are there plans to support distributed traces in APM? (Or perhaps it already does?) I'd like to have a set of spans created across services that are then linked together on the APM server. From reading the OpenTracing sp… --- ## [ElasticCloud APM](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticcloud-apm/123678)
**Author:** [@dicarlo2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dicarlo2)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2018, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticcloud-apm/123678 "2018-03-13T05:40:18Z")
Is it possible to load the dedicated APM UI on ElasticCloud? --- ## [Cannot read property 'start' of null with Mongodb instrumentation crashes the app](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-read-property-start-of-null-with-mongodb-instrumentation-crashes-the-app/122400)
**Author:** [@Shimi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shimi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2018, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-read-property-start-of-null-with-mongodb-instrumentation-crashes-the-app/122400 "2018-03-05T08:00:54Z")
Exception message Cannot read property 'start' of null Culprit wrappedFunction (node\_modules/elastic-apm-node/lib/instrumentation/modules/mongodb-core.js) node\_modules/elastic-apm-node/lib/instrumentation/modules/mon… --- ## [Monitoring the memory use of our application](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-the-memory-use-of-our-application/121516)
**Author:** [@orfeu65](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/orfeu65)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-the-memory-use-of-our-application/121516 "2018-03-04T02:43:27Z")
Hello! I am testing APM and I see that it measures and analyzes response times and number of requests. It is great. But we are interested in the memory usage of our application. The memory that is used by each request a… --- ## [Filter Service by environment](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-service-by-environment/121573)
**Author:** [@cmoi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cmoi)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-service-by-environment/121573 "2018-02-27T08:04:22Z")
Unless i have missed the way to do this, it seems that there is no simple way to filter Service by environment in APM. I have only been able to filter using discover. It would be nice to be able to add filters in the sa… --- ## [Searchable Complex JSON Object](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchable-complex-json-object/121126)
**Author:** [@Sonosar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sonosar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchable-complex-json-object/121126 "2018-02-23T08:03:18Z")
Hello, Is there a way to have searchable complex data in APM? We can have context.custom.my.data but in this case this is not searchable. We can use tags context.tags.key but in this case only string values are pe… --- ## [Socket hang up with ExpressJS](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/socket-hang-up-with-expressjs/120979)
**Author:** [@Huynh\_Nam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Huynh_Nam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2018, 5:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/socket-hang-up-with-expressjs/120979 "2018-02-22T05:19:03Z")
Hi all, I've setup my server with elastic-apm-node, and it run ok. But after a period of time (30-60 min), it causes an error like below: Error: socket hang up at createHangUpError (\_http\_client.js:331:15) at S… --- ## [Nodejs Agent not instrumenting MongoDB calls](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodejs-agent-not-instrumenting-mongodb-calls/120417)
**Author:** [@kishoreacesurf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kishoreacesurf)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodejs-agent-not-instrumenting-mongodb-calls/120417 "2018-02-21T15:03:16Z")
Nodejs Express Agent is not instrumenting mongoDB calls --- ## [APM Requirement](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-requirement/120641)
**Author:** [@akash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akash)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-requirement/120641 "2018-02-20T14:55:17Z")
Hi, What is the minimum elastic search version required for running APM. Currently we are using elastic search 2.4. Will APM run on this version. What are other important things to consider? Kindly provide your inputs … --- ## [APM Java Agent survey](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-survey/120502)
**Author:** [@felixbarny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/felixbarny)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-java-agent-survey/120502 "2018-02-19T17:30:28Z")
Hey folks, we heard you asking for an APM Java agent? We are actually already working on it! If you are interested in the Java Agent, please take a minute to fill out this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… --- ## [Elastic APM](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm/120111)
**Author:** [@sunil129](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunil129)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm/120111 "2018-02-16T11:46:16Z")
I have installed ELK 6.2 in my windows based OS. I am mainly interested on elastic APM. Would want to know whether the performers Matrix can be pulled from Java based application. Meaning can I install an agent on java b… --- ## [Trying to understand APM Architecture -- why a dedicated APM Server process?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-understand-apm-architecture-why-a-dedicated-apm-server-process/117876)
**Author:** [@ninapavlich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ninapavlich)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-understand-apm-architecture-why-a-dedicated-apm-server-process/117876 "2018-02-14T13:16:25Z")
Hello! I've been setting up a Elastic Stack over the last few months to monitor infrastructure (using MetricBeat + Logstash on my clients, sending that data to Elasticsearch + Kibana). I'm interested in expanding the mo… --- ## [APM Roadmap (again)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-roadmap-again/119395)
**Author:** [@gomesp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gomesp)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-roadmap-again/119395 "2018-02-12T11:17:15Z")
Hi team Apologies for creating another topic about the roadmap (the other topic has been closed). I am interested in instrumenting C/C++ and Java applications. I've seen many responses about prioritising Java and micro… --- ## [No field found for \[context.service.name\] in mapping with types \[\]](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-field-found-for-context-service-name-in-mapping-with-types/119303)
**Author:** [@StianOvrevage](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/StianOvrevage)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-field-found-for-context-service-name-in-mapping-with-types/119303 "2018-02-12T09:32:35Z")
After upgrading ElasticSearch, APM-server and APM-agent-nodejs, Kibana fails to retrieve docs from ES with error "Courier Fetch: 5 of 36 shards failed.". Using devtools I see this reply from \_msearch: {"responses":\[{"t… --- ## [Docs for writing my own agent](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docs-for-writing-my-own-agent/119343)
**Author:** [@macnibblet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/macnibblet)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docs-for-writing-my-own-agent/119343 "2018-02-12T08:37:14Z")
Heya, Been looking around for the documentation to writing my own go-agent but the only things I can find are the data examples in the apm repo. Is that the documentation that exists? [Previous page](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/82.md?page=165) [Next page](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/82.md?page=167)