# APM to monitor Elastic itself

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-to-monitor-elastic-itself/358770>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** agent-explorer\
**Created:** [May 6, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-to-monitor-elastic-itself/358770 "2024-05-06T05:05:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-to-monitor-elastic-itself/358770/1 "2024-05-06T05:05:11Z")

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Hello,

I don't have an issue but I am wondering if its possible to monitor Elastic using APM? I feel like this might be possible but not sure if it would be monitoring Elasticsearch or Kibana and if so what APM agents are used.

Any help or documentation would be great!

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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-to-monitor-elastic-itself/358770/2 "2024-05-16T17:18:04Z")

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[How to activate APM in Kibana and Elasticsearch to gain next-level alerting insights | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/apm-kibana-elasticsearch-alerting-insights)