APM Agent Monitoring

Hello,

Is there a way to monitor or check on the status of an apm agent?
For example, a service might not be producing any traffic so no metrics are reported in, is there a way to check if the apm agent is okay and operating?

I also seen other solutions make their apm agent as a service, making it easier to check when it stopped or is running, would that be a consideration?

Thanks,
Erik