# Apm agent can't read the configuration from appsettings.Release.json **URL:** \ **Category:** APM\ **Tags:** dotnet, server\ **Created:** [February 13, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-agent-cant-read-the-configuration-from-appsettings-release-json/353174 "2024-02-13T13:53:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bassem\_abdalftah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bassem_abdalftah/32/100794_2.png) [@bassem\_abdalftah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bassem_abdalftah)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-agent-cant-read-the-configuration-from-appsettings-release-json/353174/1 "2024-02-13T13:53:37Z")
**Kibana version** : 8.3.3 **Elasticsearch version** :8.3.3 **APM Server version** :8.3.3 **APM Agent language and version** :dotnet core 1.25.3 **Fresh install or upgraded from other version?** Fresh install The APM dotnet core agent doesn't read configuration from the appsettings.Release.json ```auto appsettings.Release.json: { "Logging": { "LogLevel": { "Default": "Information", "Elastic.Apm": "Debug", "Microsoft": "Warning", "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information" } }, "ElasticApm": { "ServerUrl": "http://10.10.10.10:8600", "SecretToken": "xxxxxxxx", "ServiceName": "ServiceCatalog", "Environment": "ServiceCatalog_prod" } } ``` and I am passing the configuration in the Startup.cs to app.UseAllElasticApm method as below : ```auto using Elastic.Apm.NetCoreAll; namespace ServiceCatalog { public class Startup { public IConfiguration Configuration { get; } public Startup(IConfiguration configuration) { Configuration = configuration; } public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env) { app.UseAllElasticApm(Configuration); } } } ``` you can find the log below : ```auto 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.573 [Information] Application Started. 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.613 [Information] Application running on environment Release 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.613 [Information] Application version 1.2.8 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.613 [Information] ServiceCatalog Seeded 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.684 [Information] {"AbstractConfigurationReader (ApmConfiguration)"} The agent was started without a service name. The service name will be automatically discovered. 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.691 [Information] {"AbstractConfigurationReader (ApmConfiguration)"} The agent was started without a service name. The automatically discovered service name is "ServiceCatalog_API" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.691 [Information] {"AbstractConfigurationReader (ApmConfiguration)"} The agent was started without a service version. The service version will be automatically discovered. 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.691 [Information] {"AbstractConfigurationReader (ApmConfiguration)"} The agent was started without a service version. The automatically discovered service version is "1.0.0" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.703 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} ******************************************************************************** 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.703 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Elastic APM .NET Agent, version: "1.25.3+730e0f64e647bc32250d011e06ac9f080b75b487" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.703 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Process ID: 2959194 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.707 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Process Name: "dotnet" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.707 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Command line arguments: '"/var/www/servicecatalog_APM/ServiceCatalog.API.dll, --urls, http://0.0.0.0:8050"' 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.708 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Operating System: "Linux 5.15.0-76-generic #83~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 21 20:23:31 UTC 2023" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.708 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} CPU architecture: X64 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.708 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Host: "Service-Catalog" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.710 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Time zone: "(UTC+02:00) Eastern European Standard Time" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.711 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Runtime: ".NET Core 3.1.32" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.714 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} ******************************************************************************** 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.714 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} Agent Configuration (via '"ApmConfiguration (config provider: ConfigurationKeyValueProvider environment provider: EnvironmentKeyValueProvider)"'): 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.728 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} " Default"->"log_level": '"Error"' ("GetDefaultValueForLogging") 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.728 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} " Default"->"server_url": '"http://127.0.0.1:8200/"' ("GetDefaultValueForLogging") 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.728 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} " Default"->"service_name": '"ServiceCatalog_API"' ("GetDefaultValueForLogging") 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.728 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} " Default"->"service_version": '"1.0.0"' ("GetDefaultValueForLogging") 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.728 [Information] {"ConfigurationStore"} ******************************************************************************** 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.730 [Information] {"Service"} Detected agent activation method: "nuget" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.744 [Information] {"SystemInfoHelper"} Could not parse container ID from '/proc/self/cgroup' line: "11:devices:/system.slice/sc.service" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.744 [Information] {"SystemInfoHelper"} Could not parse container ID from '/proc/self/cgroup' line: "10:memory:/system.slice/sc.service" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.744 [Information] {"SystemInfoHelper"} Could not parse container ID from '/proc/self/cgroup' line: "5:pids:/system.slice/sc.service" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.744 [Information] {"SystemInfoHelper"} Could not parse container ID from '/proc/self/cgroup' line: "1:name=systemd:/system.slice/sc.service" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.744 [Information] {"SystemInfoHelper"} Could not parse container ID from '/proc/self/cgroup' line: "0::/system.slice/sc.service" 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.744 [Information] {"SystemInfoHelper"} Failed parsing container id - the agent will not report container id. Likely the application is not running within a container 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.761 [Information] CreateHttpClientHandler - Setting ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.762 [Information] CreateHttpClientHandler - SslProtocols: Tls12 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.786 [Information] CreateHttpClientHandler - Setting ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.787 [Information] CreateHttpClientHandler - SslProtocols: Tls12 2024-02-13 15: 01: 10.817 [Information] {"MetricsCollector"} Collecting metrics in 30000 milliseconds interval 2024-02-13 15: 01: 13.895 [Warning] {"PayloadSenderV2"} Failed reading APM server info System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: Connection refused ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (111): Connection refused at System.Net.Http.ConnectHelper.ConnectAsync(String host, Int32 port, CancellationToken cancellationToken) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Net.Http.ConnectHelper.ConnectAsync(String host, Int32 port, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionPool.ConnectAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, Boolean allowHttp2, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionPool.CreateHttp11ConnectionAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionPool.GetHttpConnectionAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionPool.SendWithRetryAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, Boolean doRequestAuth, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Http.AuthenticationHelper.SendWithAuthAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, Uri authUri, ICredentials credentials, Boolean preAuthenticate, Boolean isProxyAuth, Boolean doRequestAuth, HttpConnectionPool pool, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Http.RedirectHandler.SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Http.DiagnosticsHandler.SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Http.HttpClient.FinishSendAsyncBuffered(Task`1 sendTask, HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationTokenSource cts, Boolean disposeCts) at Elastic.Apm.ServerInfo.ApmServerInfoProvider.FillApmServerInfo(IApmServerInfo apmServerInfo, IApmLogger logger, IConfiguration configuration, HttpClient httpClient, Action`2 callbackOnFinish) ``` ---
**Author:** ![stevejgordon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stevejgordon/32/80912_2.png) [@stevejgordon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stevejgordon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-agent-cant-read-the-configuration-from-appsettings-release-json/353174/2 "2024-02-13T15:58:19Z")
Hi, @bassem_abdalftah. We don't control the loading and binding of the configuration values and can only access those provided via the `IConfiguration` instance passed into `UseAllElasticApm`. The Microsoft extension libraries (Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration, etc.) handle the loading of the values from the various configuration sources. It doesn't look like this release-specific file is being loaded/used. Are you 100% certain that the app is running under the `Release` environment? At this point, I'd recommend double-checking your application environment and configuration first. For example, if you add another key to the `appsettings.Release.json` file and attempt to access it from `IConfiguration` in your code, does it resolve the value from the `appsettings.Release.json` file? I suspect it won't. ---
**Author:** ![bassem\_abdalftah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bassem_abdalftah/32/100794_2.png) [@bassem\_abdalftah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bassem_abdalftah)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-agent-cant-read-the-configuration-from-appsettings-release-json/353174/3 "2024-02-14T11:25:50Z")
Hello Steve after I investigate more in my configuration, I found a typo from my side was causing the error sorry and thanks for your time 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-agent-cant-read-the-configuration-from-appsettings-release-json/353174/4 "2024-03-13T11:26:15Z")
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