# How to monitor elasticsearch cluster itself using apm server?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-itself-using-apm-server/289552
**Category:** APM
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-machine-learning, server
**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-itself-using-apm-server/289552 "2021-11-18T09:10:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@manu\_john](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/manu_john)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2021, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-itself-using-apm-server/289552/1 "2021-11-18T09:10:06Z")
I have spun up a 9 node Elasticsearch cluster 3 master, 3 data hot and 3 data warm in an EKS using Elasticsearch operator and i want to monitor these nodes using apmserver. So using the operators i configured below versions in my Kubernetes cluster
**Kibana version** : 7.15.1
**Elasticsearch version** : 7.15.1
**APM Server version** : 7.15.1
All the above pods are Up and running.
So I am able to access kibana, but not finding any apmserver or metrics in the apm section in kibana
My requirement is to monitor the Elasticsearch cluster itself. To do that do i need to make any changes in the cluster?, i saw apm-agents need to be installed in the nodes which needs to be monitored, Kind: Elasticsearch will spin the ES nodes which will have the apm-agent installed by default? How can i do that if Someone able to guide will be helpfull?
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### Author:  [@axw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/axw)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2021, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-itself-using-apm-server/289552/2 "2021-11-18T09:33:48Z")
As your requirement is only to monitor the Elasticsearch cluster, I suggest you look at Stack Monitoring: [Elasticsearch Monitoring Metrics | Kibana Guide [7.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/elasticsearch-metrics.html)
Instrumenting Elasticsearch with APM is not currently supported.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-itself-using-apm-server/289552/5 "2021-12-09T06:03:51Z")
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