APM Agent remote configuration error

Hello,

I have APM version 7.6.2
APM succesfully brings me the log info in kibana as the image show below;

Nevertheless, I receive the following error when navigating in APM settings in kibana

The critical parts of my APM yml file are as follows:

  kibana:
    # For APM Agent configuration in Kibana, enabled must be true.
    enabled: true

    # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (`http` and `5601`).
    # In case you specify an additional path, the scheme is required: `http://localhost:5601/path`.
    # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: `https://[2001:db8::1]:5601`.
    host: "http://sag-tst-es-001.sag.services:5601"

    # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
    #protocol: "https"
    username: "myuser"
    password: "myuser"

    # Optional HTTP path.
    #path: ""

    # Enable custom SSL settings. Set to false to ignore custom SSL settings for secure communication.
    #ssl.enabled: true

    # Optional SSL configuration options. SSL is off by default, change the `protocol` option if you want to enable `https`.
    # Configure SSL verification mode. If `none` is configured, all server hosts
    # and certificates will be accepted. In this mode, SSL based connections are
    # susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. Use only for testing. Default is
    # `full`.
    #ssl.verification_mode: full

    # List of supported/valid TLS versions. By default all TLS versions 1.0 up to
    # 1.2 are enabled.
    #ssl.supported_protocols: [TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2]

    # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications.
    #ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]

    # Certificate for SSL client authentication.
    #ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"

    # Client Certificate Key
    #ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"

    # Optional passphrase for decrypting the Certificate Key.
    # It is recommended to use the provided keystore instead of entering the passphrase in plain text.
    #ssl.key_passphrase: ''

    # Configure cipher suites to be used for SSL connections.
    #ssl.cipher_suites: []

    # Configure curve types for ECDHE based cipher suites.
    #ssl.curve_types: []

#================================= General =================================

# Data is buffered in a memory queue before it is published to the configured output.
# The memory queue will present all available events (up to the outputs
# bulk_max_size) to the output, the moment the output is ready to serve
# another batch of events.
queue:
  # Queue type by name (default 'mem').
  mem:
    # Max number of events the queue can buffer.
    events: 12288

    # Hints the minimum number of events stored in the queue,
    # before providing a batch of events to the outputs.
    # The default value is set to 2048.
    # A value of 0 ensures events are immediately available
    # to be sent to the outputs.
    #flush.min_events: 2048

    # Maximum duration after which events are available to the outputs,
    # if the number of events stored in the queue is < `flush.min_events`.
    #flush.timeout: 1s

# Sets the maximum number of CPUs that can be executing simultaneously. The
# default is the number of logical CPUs available in the system.
#max_procs:

#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output --------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (`http` and `9200`).
  # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: `http://localhost:9200/path`.
  # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: `https://[2001:db8::1]:9200`.
  hosts: [ "sag-tst-es-001.sag.services:9200", "sag-tst-es-002.sag.services:9200" ]

  # Boolean flag to enable or disable the output module.
  #enabled: true

  # Set gzip compression level.
  #compression_level: 0

  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  #protocol: "https"
  username: "myuser"
  password: "myuser"

  # Dictionary of HTTP parameters to pass within the url with index operations.
  #parameters:
    #param1: value1
    #param2: value2

  # Number of workers per Elasticsearch host.
  worker: 2

#============================= X-pack Monitoring =============================

# APM server can export internal metrics to a central Elasticsearch monitoring
# cluster.  This requires x-pack monitoring to be enabled in Elasticsearch.  The
# reporting is disabled by default.

# Set to true to enable the monitoring reporter.
monitoring.enabled: true

# Most settings from the Elasticsearch output are accepted here as well.
# Note that these settings should be configured to point to your Elasticsearch *monitoring* cluster.
# Any setting that is not set is automatically inherited from the Elasticsearch
# output configuration. This means that if you have the Elasticsearch output configured,
# you can simply uncomment the following line.
monitoring.elasticsearch:

  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  #protocol: "https"
  #username: "apm_system"
  #password: "apm_system"

  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (`http` and `9200`).
  # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: `http://localhost:9200/path`.
  # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: `https://[2001:db8::1]:9200`.
  #hosts: ["localhost:9200"]#============================= X-pack Monitoring =============================

# APM server can export internal metrics to a central Elasticsearch monitoring
# cluster.  This requires x-pack monitoring to be enabled in Elasticsearch.  The
# reporting is disabled by default.

# Set to true to enable the monitoring reporter.
monitoring.enabled: true

# Most settings from the Elasticsearch output are accepted here as well.
# Note that these settings should be configured to point to your Elasticsearch *monitoring* cluster.
# Any setting that is not set is automatically inherited from the Elasticsearch
# output configuration. This means that if you have the Elasticsearch output configured,
# you can simply uncomment the following line.
monitoring.elasticsearch:

  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  #protocol: "https"
  #username: "apm_system"
  #password: "apm_system"

  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (`http` and `9200`).
  # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: `http://localhost:9200/path`.
  # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: `https://[2001:db8::1]:9200`.
  #hosts: ["localhost:9200"]

Also to add that the user named: myuser that i use in the previous yml file has superuser rights and me as a user when i navigate in kibana i have superuser rights.

What i need to change in order to fix the issue?

Any help on that one please?

Hello, can you check if you have the .apm-agent-configuration index created:

With curl, you should get a 200 response from:
curl -XGET "<ElasticsearchHost>/.apm-agent-configuration"

or you can go to the Index Managemet in Kibana and search for it (turn on "Include system indices"):

If either of those doesn't return with an index, then there might be some issue with the automatic creation of that index.

Hello Oliver,

You are absolutely right the index does not exist. So what do you suggest to do now?

Thank you in advance

Restart Kibana and take a look at the log when it starts up. Look for an error like Could not create APM Agent configuration: <specific error message>. This should give us an idea if there is a permissions or validation issue when creating the new index. If we can't figure it out from there, the last resort is to manual create this index with:

curl -XPUT "https://<ElasticsearchHost>:9200/.apm-agent-configuration" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{"settings":{"index":{"auto_expand_replicas":"0-1"}},"mappings":{"properties":{"@timestamp":{"type":"date"},"service":{"properties":{"name":{"type":"keyword","ignore_above":1024},"environment":{"type":"keyword","ignore_above":1024}}},"settings":{"properties":{"transaction_sample_rate":{"type":"scaled_float","scaling_factor":1000,"ignore_malformed":true,"coerce":false},"capture_body":{"type":"keyword","ignore_above":1024},"transaction_max_spans":{"type":"short"}}},"applied_by_agent":{"type":"boolean"},"agent_name":{"type":"keyword","ignore_above":1024},"etag":{"type":"keyword","ignore_above":1024}}}}'
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Hello Oliver,

Thank you very much i restarted kibana and that was the solution!!!!!.
Do you possibly know why it didnt create the index at the first place and i had to restart kibana in order to create it?

I'm not totally sure why the index wasn't created in the first place. Some migration work was just completed with respect to how the APM plugin initializes within Kibana, and I don't anticipate this being an issue in future releases. I'm glad it's working on your end. Cheers! -Oliver

Thank you very much Oliver. :slight_smile:

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