# Docker Compose Tutorial - Connection to APM Server timed out
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-compose-tutorial-connection-to-apm-server-timed-out/347560
**Category:** Elastic Observability
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [November 20, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-compose-tutorial-connection-to-apm-server-timed-out/347560 "2023-11-20T22:13:38Z")
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### Author:  [@learningelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/learningelastic)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-compose-tutorial-connection-to-apm-server-timed-out/347560/1 "2023-11-20T22:13:38Z")
I'm trying to follow this simple guide to get APM up and working with `docker-compose`
> **[Getting started with the Elastic Stack and Docker Compose: Part 2](https://www.elastic.co/blog/getting-started-with-the-elastic-stack-and-docker-compose-part-2)**
>
> In this blog, build on our previous cluster and implement additional features such as Fleet, Agent, APM, and a demo application for your POC delight! Remember, Docker Compose is not recommended for production, even if the cluster sizing is larger.
I was able to do all the steps. My only issue is that the python app container gives the error:
```auto
docker logs es-cluster-webapp-1
INFO: Started server process [1]
INFO: Waiting for application startup.
INFO: Application startup complete.
INFO: Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
Failed to submit message: 'Connection to APM Server timed out (url: http://fleet-server:8200/intake/v2/events, timeout: 5 seconds)'
Failed to submit message: 'Connection to APM Server timed out (url: http://fleet-server:8200/intake/v2/events, timeout: 5 seconds)'
Failed to submit message: 'Connection to APM Server timed out (url: http://fleet-server:8200/intake/v2/events, timeout: 5 seconds)'
Failed to submit message: 'Connection to APM Server timed out (url: http://fleet-server:8200/intake/v2/events, timeout: 5 seconds)'
Failed to submit message: 'Connection to APM Server timed out (url: http://fleet-server:8200/intake/v2/events, timeout: 5 seconds)'
Failed to submit message: 'Connection to APM Server timed out (url: http://fleet-server:8200/intake/v2/events, timeout: 5 seconds)'
```
Everything else about this tutorial works, the agent is submitting mem+cpu information and showing metric, the fleet server says healthy etc... Just my web app container can't connect to the fleet server. I tried restarting the container, I tried restarting the entire docker-compose, but it is still the same result.
Where I can I go to get information on why the webapp container can't connect to APM? Or even better, what did I need to do to make the python app submit data to the APM server?
Just to summarize, these are the steps I followed from the guide
```auto
git clone https://github.com/elkninja/elastic-stack-docker-part-two.git
cd elastic-stack-docker-part-two
docker-compose up --build -d
docker cp es-cluster-es01-1:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs/ca/ca.crt /tmp/.
openssl x509 -fingerprint -sha256 -noout -in /tmp/ca.crt | awk -F"=" {' print $2 '} | sed s/://g
cat /tmp/ca.crt
```
Then I pasted the following information into Kibana's Fleet Server Settings (as instructed by the tutorial)
```auto
HOSTS:
https://es01:9200/
FINGERPRINT:
DBF32B7752D6C345BA087FA55A47BF6D35CFEACBFC1577E5D8BDF77C6AF0CA2C
ADVANCE YML
ssl:
certificate_authorities:
- |
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIDSjCCAjKgAwIBAgIVAP9hxK7zF+B1IgZJoQAPHxAVetPuMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEB
CwUAMDQxMjAwBgNVBAMTKUVsYXN0aWMgQ2VydGlmaWNhdGUgVG9vbCBBdXRvZ2Vu
ZXJhdGVkIENBMB4XDTIzMTEyMDIxNTczMFoXDTI2MTExOTIxNTczMFowNDEyMDAG
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ggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggEKAoIBAQCduXFAa+/dkXiAH3HGQqiI
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9SiB8jgGZWdlOFcAoD7DyHXUParo28Z20fEEQ2lI//0YUfQuva0gJbFnwbPJ14BK
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A8SAhlyt2KWMs+dgPS6omYkfMXN3UPSyXBqKKCEv
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
```
I pressed save and deploy. Then I see metrics and healthy status for the elastic agent. But no APM results appear in my Kibana, and when I do the `docker logs es-cluster-webapp-1`, I just see the time out issue.
What did I do wrong? Or how do I get more information on the timeout issue?
Here is a 3 min video of me doing all of these steps:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp_SBMtR__A)
What did I miss?
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### Author:  [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-compose-tutorial-connection-to-apm-server-timed-out/347560/2 "2023-11-21T10:24:14Z")
Hi @learningelastic,
Welcome back! I've pinged the author to see if he has any ideas.
But I would recommend checking the connection settings and also double check if any messages are coming through from the Python app in case it's down to load rather than a straight block (see the troubleshooting guide [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/common-problems.html#:~:text=This%20might%20happen%20when%20APM,runs%20out%20of%20disk%20space.)).
Hope that helps!
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### Author:  [@eMitch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eMitch)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-compose-tutorial-connection-to-apm-server-timed-out/347560/3 "2023-11-21T15:25:46Z")
Hey @learningelastic!
First, thank you for such a great explanation and even a video recreating your problem! That makes discussion much easier for sure.
I'm going to wipe out my environment and rebuild using your steps to try recreate the issue myself.
if you access [http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000) from your browser - does the sample app load?
if you're able to interact with the web app, do any additional logs show up on the container?
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### Author:  [@learningelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/learningelastic)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-compose-tutorial-connection-to-apm-server-timed-out/347560/4 "2023-11-21T20:19:34Z")
Ooooooh...how stupid of me . Yes, I need to actually visit the website at `http://localhost-or-ip:8000/` and interact with the website first. I was just under the wrong impression that if I started the container, the python app would automatically broadcast some `on-load` event data to APM.
So yes, when I visit `http://localhost-or-ip:8000/` and click around, data is actually going to my ELK stack.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@eMitch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eMitch)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-compose-tutorial-connection-to-apm-server-timed-out/347560/5 "2023-11-21T20:32:07Z")
Oh! Great! Glad its working.
I wasn't able to recreate the problem and your steps worked perfectly.
I think the error you saw was a residual because when the container _first_ starts up, it wont be able to connect to the fleet-server and throws the error.