# Elastic Observability **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/82.md?page=3 [Latest](https://discuss.elastic.co/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.elastic.co/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.elastic.co/tags.md) **Page:** 4 --- ## [APM - Infrastructure Tab not working for any apm agent](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-infrastructure-tab-not-working-for-any-apm-agent/377687)
**Author:** [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-infrastructure-tab-not-working-for-any-apm-agent/377687 "2025-11-04T10:02:28Z")
Kibana version: 8.18.0 Elasticsearch version: 8.18.0 APM Server version: 8.18.0 APM Agent language and version: Python/Java/.NET latest version Is there anything special in your setup? For example, are you using … --- ## [Trace is not showing full information, out of a billion event on websphere java app](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trace-is-not-showing-full-information-out-of-a-billion-event-on-websphere-java-app/383179)
**Author:** [@Serak\_Shiferaw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Serak_Shiferaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trace-is-not-showing-full-information-out-of-a-billion-event-on-websphere-java-app/383179 "2025-11-03T10:44:24Z")
Trace is not showing full information on trace page, out half a billion event on websphere java app, but i am able to see a lot of those details on discover index, not sure why everything is aggregated into one transacti… --- ## [.NET W3C format webserver access logs on Linux](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-w3c-format-webserver-access-logs-on-linux/382178)
**Author:** [@taprove](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/taprove)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-w3c-format-webserver-access-logs-on-linux/382178 "2025-10-30T13:34:00Z")
Before I go down the path of creating something custom to bring in W3C format access logs generated from .NET https server apps on Linux, I wanted to make sure there wasn’t some easier way to do it with an existing integ… --- ## [gVal expression to evaluate the length of JSON Array](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gval-expression-to-evaluate-the-length-of-json-array/383057)
**Author:** [@Chow](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chow)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gval-expression-to-evaluate-the-length-of-json-array/383057 "2025-10-30T04:04:20Z")
Hi, We have a synthetics lightweight HTTP Ping monitor, that returns a JSON. The requirement is to check the length of an array in JSON response. I used the response from the following URL to test it https://status.s… --- ## [Rule Scope field does not appear while editing Custom threshold rule](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rule-scope-field-does-not-appear-while-editing-custom-threshold-rule/382864)
**Author:** [@marcelpineda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marcelpineda)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rule-scope-field-does-not-appear-while-editing-custom-threshold-rule/382864 "2025-10-27T17:26:06Z")
I have an Elastic Instance running v8.18.0. When I go to Observability \> Alerts, then click ‘Manage Rules’ \> Create Rule and start creating a Custom Threshold rule, I see this option: After saving the rule and editin… --- ## [APM transaction not found](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-transaction-not-found/382970)
**Author:** [@mossnana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mossnana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-transaction-not-found/382970 "2025-10-25T14:57:19Z")
Kibana version: 9.2.0 Elasticsearch version: 9.2.0 APM Server version: 9.2.0 APM Agent language and version: 1.18.0 Browser version: Chrome 141.0.7390.123 Steps to reproduce: I want to use apm with my golang api. S… --- ## [Synthetics Private Location Policies](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetics-private-location-policies/382857)
**Author:** [@Nekstar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nekstar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetics-private-location-policies/382857 "2025-10-24T07:24:41Z")
I’m currently facing a small issue when creating a Private Location. When trying to create a Private Location for a Space other than “Default” it can only find Agent Policies in the “Default” Space. I expected it to find… --- ## [Synthetics elastic-agent-complete High Availability](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetics-elastic-agent-complete-high-availability/382890)
**Author:** [@Craig\_Sharp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Craig_Sharp)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetics-elastic-agent-complete-high-availability/382890 "2025-10-22T14:03:06Z")
I am currently operating the elastic-agent-complete container within a single-node Docker environment. Due to the critical nature and volume of monitoring we perform, it is imperative that we transition this deployment t… --- ## [Visualize OTEL http.server.request.duration metric](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-otel-http-server-request-duration-metric/382841)
**Author:** [@david.michael](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/david.michael)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-otel-http-server-request-duration-metric/382841 "2025-10-20T23:14:44Z")
I’m currently using the elastic-otel-java agent to instrument Java based applications and have enabled the OTEL\_INSTRUMENTATION\_HTTP\_SERVER\_EMIT\_EXPERIMENTAL\_TELEMETRY option which outputs a new metric called http.server… --- ## [Http Headers are shown as custom labels when open telemetry agent is used](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-headers-are-shown-as-custom-labels-when-open-telemetry-agent-is-used/358702)
**Author:** [@Sandeep\_Jha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sandeep_Jha)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2025, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-headers-are-shown-as-custom-labels-when-open-telemetry-agent-is-used/358702 "2025-10-20T08:08:02Z")
Hi , When I use open telemetry agent in NET 6 web application to send the trace data to Elastic Server , only few of http headers are shown in metadata of trace , and if any additional header is added using activity.Set… --- ## [Not able to capture error for Python app](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-capture-error-for-python-app/382799)
**Author:** [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-capture-error-for-python-app/382799 "2025-10-17T08:12:02Z")
Hello Everyone, I am not able to capture error message in APM for python app.Below is the code . import requests import elasticapm from elasticapm import Client from elasticapm.instrumentation.control import instrument… --- ## [Ndjson into APM](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ndjson-into-apm/381827)
**Author:** [@Rnx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rnx)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 16, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ndjson-into-apm/381827 "2025-10-16T19:23:22Z")
How to ingest ndjson into APM server? We have an open telemetry data written (in ndjson) in the single file, which should be continuously loaded and sent to the APM. We can’t use Filebeat as it has no APM output. We co… --- ## [Invalid composable template](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/invalid-composable-template/382223)
**Author:** [@Ekta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ekta)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 16, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/invalid-composable-template/382223 "2025-10-16T14:01:48Z")
Hi We are using Elasticsearch - 8.18.1 kibana - 8.18.6 APM-server - 8.18.1 in linux server - 22.04 We have upgraded Elasticsearch,kibana and APM-server from 7.17.27 to 8.18.1 after some time we are getting below erro… --- ## [How to do distributed tracing with our own traceparent?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-distributed-tracing-with-our-own-traceparent/382700)
**Author:** [@nilsen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nilsen)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-distributed-tracing-with-our-own-traceparent/382700 "2025-10-14T11:35:17Z")
We currently have an sequence ID that is shared/accessible for all our micro-services. And I'm wondering if there is a way to reuse this ID in the traceparent. My goal is that all our services can do tracing to the corr… --- ## [Kibana Observability metrics expected format not otel?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-observability-metrics-expected-format-not-otel/382561)
**Author:** [@nilsen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nilsen)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-observability-metrics-expected-format-not-otel/382561 "2025-10-14T10:59:10Z")
I have tried to get JVM and other metrics from Wildfly to show up in Kibana Observability. Wildfly have support for exporting/pushing metrics with the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), in what I assume is the OTEL standard.… --- ## [Profiler Auto Instrumentation for .net application](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/profiler-auto-instrumentation-for-net-application/382627)
**Author:** [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/profiler-auto-instrumentation-for-net-application/382627 "2025-10-13T16:09:42Z")
Hello Everyone I have single node ELK cluster running on 8.18 . I want to test APM for that i have sample .net core application running on localhost:5005 . I want to instrument my application without touching the code … --- ## [Span type clarification](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-type-clarification/382574)
**Author:** [@atennapel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atennapel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/span-type-clarification/382574 "2025-10-10T17:09:14Z")
Hello, I’ve been testing Elastic APM with OpenTelemetry and I’ve noticed that some of my spans are showing up as having type “unknown”. I tried to set the “span.type” to “app”, but it seems that I cannot set this span … --- ## [Ingest pipeline for APM traces not working](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-pipeline-for-apm-traces-not-working/382419)
**Author:** [@SamehSaeed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SamehSaeed)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-pipeline-for-apm-traces-not-working/382419 "2025-10-06T14:17:14Z")
Kibana version:9.0.3 Elasticsearch version:9.0.3 APM Server version:9.0.3 APM Agent language and version: Java, 1.49.0 Browser version: Chrome 140.0.7339.81 Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, fro… --- ## [Overall rate limiting with \`spans\_per\_second\` across multiple \`tail\_sampling\` policies](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-rate-limiting-with-spans-per-second-across-multiple-tail-sampling-policies/382444)
**Author:** [@brevity](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brevity)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-rate-limiting-with-spans-per-second-across-multiple-tail-sampling-policies/382444 "2025-10-06T12:53:42Z")
I’m trying to introduce an overall rate limit on our span ingestion, to avoid high error rates (which we normally want to sample at 1.0) elsewhere taking down the monitoring system as well. spans\_per\_second seems to be … --- ## [APM Central configuration not working](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-central-configuration-not-working/382194)
**Author:** [@SamehSaeed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SamehSaeed)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-central-configuration-not-working/382194 "2025-09-29T12:31:55Z")
Kibana version:9.0.3 Elasticsearch version:9.0.3 APM Server version:9.0.3 APM Agent language and version:1.49.0 Browser version: Chrome Version 140.0.7339.128 (Official Build) (64-bit) Original install method (e.g. … --- ## [Initializing Elastic RUM in child application(like stencil) that renders in parent application which already initialized with different service name](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/initializing-elastic-rum-in-child-application-like-stencil-that-renders-in-parent-application-which-already-initialized-with-different-service-name/382004)
**Author:** [@vivekbarkam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vivekbarkam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/initializing-elastic-rum-in-child-application-like-stencil-that-renders-in-parent-application-which-already-initialized-with-different-service-name/382004 "2025-09-17T07:40:50Z")
Hi, We have a stencil application(web component) that renders on any parent applications like angular. We initialized Elastic APM in child app, and noticed that one of the parent apps also using Elastic APM with differe… --- ## [APM Server 9.1.4 Container Always Fails with 401 Despite Valid Credentials](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-9-1-4-container-always-fails-with-401-despite-valid-credentials/382139)
**Author:** [@Andrey\_Smirnov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrey_Smirnov)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-9-1-4-container-always-fails-with-401-despite-valid-credentials/382139 "2025-09-22T23:14:10Z")
I’m running Elasticsearch, Kibana, and APM Server 9.1.4 in Docker using Docker Compose. All containers are on the same custom bridge network. Elasticsearch shows green cluster health and the apm\_system user is enabled wi… --- ## [Metrics Tab is now allowing you to resize visualizations](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-tab-is-now-allowing-you-to-resize-visualizations/377285)
**Author:** [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-tab-is-now-allowing-you-to-resize-visualizations/377285 "2025-09-18T16:05:16Z")
Kibana version: 8.18.0 Elasticsearch version: 8.18.0 APM Server version: 8.18.0 Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior. Please include screenshots (if relevant): It appears the Metric… --- ## [Device emulation using playwright options flag in synthetics cli](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/device-emulation-using-playwright-options-flag-in-synthetics-cli/381899)
**Author:** [@nikki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nikki)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/device-emulation-using-playwright-options-flag-in-synthetics-cli/381899 "2025-09-16T14:23:19Z")
Hi, Firstly, apologies if I did not include everything I should have as it’s my first time posting. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet + Elastic Agent versions are all 8.15.1. It is on-prem version of Elasticstack. My issu… --- ## [Trying to ingore OPTIONS http method](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-ingore-options-http-method/380758)
**Author:** [@miguel.longo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/miguel.longo)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-ingore-options-http-method/380758 "2025-09-15T13:29:18Z")
Kibana version: 8.6.2 Elasticsearch version: 8.6.2 APM Server version: 8.6.2 APM Agent language and version: Java Agent v1.52.1 Hello Folks. I'd like to know, if it's possible in java agent arguments, remove the pre… --- ## [Server Down or Restarted Alert Rule](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/server-down-or-restarted-alert-rule/381938)
**Author:** [@lomar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lomar)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/server-down-or-restarted-alert-rule/381938 "2025-09-15T07:41:05Z")
I want to monitor whether my servers are shut down or restarted. To do this, I created a Metricbeat Threshold rule via Observability, but it is not working properly. Even if the condition that triggered the alarm is no l… --- ## [PHP - Missing trace when utilising createErrorFromThrowable](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-missing-trace-when-utilising-createerrorfromthrowable/378678)
**Author:** [@oliverkuchies](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/oliverkuchies)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/php-missing-trace-when-utilising-createerrorfromthrowable/378678 "2025-09-13T00:50:20Z")
Hi there, It seems when utilising createErrorFromThrowable the exception itself is being registered in ElasticAPM which is great. However, its missing the stack trace. I can see that other transactions have a trace sa… --- ## [Issue with Synthetic Private Locations](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-synthetic-private-locations/381769)
**Author:** [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-synthetic-private-locations/381769 "2025-09-12T14:57:55Z")
Anyone experiencing an issue where Synthetic Private Locations stop working once you upgrade to 9.1.3? I see this: not be initialized: browser monitors cannot be created outside the official elastic docker image├─ synt… --- ## [How to filter out all exception traces related to a EF Core exception?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-out-all-exception-traces-related-to-a-ef-core-exception/381883)
**Author:** [@nicystalker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nicystalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-out-all-exception-traces-related-to-a-ef-core-exception/381883 "2025-09-11T16:51:27Z")
Hi, I’m trying to indicate the .NET APM client that the following exception, thrown from EF Core is properly handled: catch (DbUpdateException exception) when (exception.InnerException is PostgresException { … --- ## [Elastic-apm Java agent the unable to get msearch quries and aggregate & find mongo quries](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-java-agent-the-unable-to-get-msearch-quries-and-aggregate-find-mongo-quries/381795)
**Author:** [@uttamkrpanda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uttamkrpanda)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-java-agent-the-unable-to-get-msearch-quries-and-aggregate-find-mongo-quries/381795 "2025-09-10T10:53:26Z")
Kibana version: 8.17 Elasticsearch version: 8.17.0 APM Server version: 1.55.0 APM Agent language and version: apm-javaagent , 1.55.0 Browser version: Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from sour… [Previous page](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/82.md?page=2) [Next page](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/82.md?page=4)