# APM "setup" shows success but no APM data available

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642>\
**Category:** APM\
**Created:** [January 2, 2019, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642 "2019-01-02T11:42:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![ethrbunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ethrbunny/32/34603_2.png) [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642/21 "2019-01-08T11:24:32Z")

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```
[root@kafka-lagmonitor-558bdbdf9c-55b8t /]# echo $JAVA_OPTS
-javaagent:elastic-apm-agent-1.1.0.jar -Delastic.apm.service_name=kafka_lagmonitor -Delastic.apm.application_packages=com.cedexis.lagmonitor -Delastic.apm.server_urls=http://10.95.96.144:8200

[root@kafka-lagmonitor-558bdbdf9c-55b8t /]# ps ax | grep java
1 ? Ssl 19:40 java -Dlogback.configurationFile=./logback.xmli -javaagent:elastic-apm-agent-1.1.0.jar -Delastic.apm.service_name=kafka_lagmonitor -Delastic.apm.application_packages=com.cedexis.lagmonitor -Delastic.apm.server_urls=http://10.95.96.144:8200 -jar /kafka_lagmonitor-all.jar
```

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**Author:** ![nugusbayevkk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nugusbayevkk/32/126683_2.png) [@nugusbayevkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nugusbayevkk)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642/22 "2019-01-09T16:27:36Z")

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@ethrbunny can you update JAVA\_OPTS with adding to it log\_level parameter:

```auto
-Delastic.apm.log_level=DEBUG

```

and resend your logs again.

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**Author:** ![nugusbayevkk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nugusbayevkk/32/126683_2.png) [@nugusbayevkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nugusbayevkk)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642/23 "2019-01-09T16:29:12Z")

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@ethrbunny did you try this?

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**Author:** ![ethrbunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ethrbunny/32/34603_2.png) [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642/24 "2019-01-10T11:30:21Z")

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```
[root@playground kafka_lagmonitor]# kubectl --namespace=kafka logs kafka-lagmonitor-558bdbdf9c-nt99h                 
2019-01-10 11:26:00.869 [apm-server-healthcheck] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.report.ApmServerHealthChecker - Starting healthcheck to http://10.95.96.144:8200/
2019-01-10 11:26:00.920 [main] INFO co.elastic.apm.configuration.StartupInfo - Starting Elastic APM 1.1.0 as kafka_lagmonitor on Java 1.8.0_181 (Oracle Corporation) Linux 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64
2019-01-10 11:26:00.920 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.configuration.StartupInfo - service_name: 'kafka_lagmonitor' (source: Java System Properties) 
2019-01-10 11:26:00.921 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.configuration.StartupInfo - server_urls: 'http://10.95.96.144:8200' (source: Java System Properties)
2019-01-10 11:26:00.921 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.configuration.StartupInfo - application_packages: 'com.cedexis.lagmonitor' (source: Java System Properties)
2019-01-10 11:26:00.921 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.configuration.StartupInfo - log_level: 'DEBUG' (source: Java System Properties)
2019-01-10 11:26:00.958 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.plugin.api.ElasticApmApiInstrumentation$StartTransactionInstrumentation

```

...

followed by this:

```
2019-01-10 11:26:00.981 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applied 43 advices
2019-01-10 11:26:00.990 [apm-server-healthcheck] INFO co.elastic.apm.report.ApmServerHealthChecker - Elastic APM server is available: {"ok":{"build_date":"2018-12-06T18:49:16Z","build_sha":"c784db0b58d2f70db7582dc80850e08a32ba45e5","version":"6.5.3"}}

```

So it does appear to find the apm-server...

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**Author:** ![nugusbayevkk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nugusbayevkk/32/126683_2.png) [@nugusbayevkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nugusbayevkk)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642/25 "2019-01-10T17:14:13Z")

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@ethrbunny did you try this?

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**Author:** ![ethrbunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ethrbunny/32/34603_2.png) [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642/26 "2019-01-11T11:41:06Z")

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Yes - that's the output above ^^

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**Author:** ![ethrbunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ethrbunny/32/34603_2.png) [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642/27 "2019-01-13T02:15:29Z")

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I added trace annotation to the code. Now I can see data in the 'traces' panel but still nothing in the 'services' panel.

Unf "response times" and "requests per minute" charts are both empty. Odd because "response times" charts shows "avg: 18ms" at the top.

"response time distribution" shows some values.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-setup-shows-success-but-no-apm-data-available/162642/28 "2019-02-02T22:15:29Z")

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