How to trace non web transactions

[SheetalRIL (Sheetal)]

Hi
We are using ELK 6.8.4 and APM 6.8.1.
We are able to monitor API based applications using APM but we have a requirement of monitoring Non-API applications (batch jobs) using APM. We couldnt find any way to do it.
Can you please guide us on monitoring Non-API applications.

Thanks,
Sheetal

[Shaoranlaos (Christian Stockhaus)]

The simplest way would be to use the Public APi Annotations
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/current/public-api.html (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/current/public-api.html#api-annotation)

Simply annotated your entry method with @Transaction and don't forget to set the application_packages config option.

[SheetalRIL (Sheetal)]

Thanks for the reply.
Even if i add annotations or write code to begin and end transcation, I still have to send logs to APM server. I have simple "hello_world" program which in python script. Can you suggest me how can i send the logs of this script (without Flask server) to APM because I do not have any option on send logs to APM Server.

Regards,
Sheetal

[Shaoranlaos (Christian Stockhaus)]

APM does not collect logs of an application, it only collects performance data (to my knowledge).
For logging you would use a standard logging into a file and read this file with filebeat or do direct insertation of the logs into elasticsearch with the api and the provided client in your programming language.

[beniwohli (Benjamin Wohlwend @ APM)]

@SheetalRIL for Python, you need to do 4 steps manually in your Python script

• Activate instrumentation

import elasticapm
elasticapm.instrument()

• instantiate the client

client = elasticapm.Client(service_name="foo", server_url="https://example.com:8200")

• begin a transaction before executing your main logic

client.begin_transaction(transaction_type="script")

• end the transaction, giving it a name and a result (using __name__ here as name will give it the name of the python module)

client.end_transaction(name=__name__, result="success")

You don't need to manually send the data, as the agent will do that automatically when the Python interpreter exits.

[SheetalRIL (Sheetal)]

Thanks a lot It worked.