I need to create an Alert in case APM stop working. Does Kibana have anything that could help with it?

[SamuelSMendes (Samuel S. Mendes Soares)]

I've installed multiple Java APM agents and would like to monitor them in a sense that if any stop responding I get an alert. The same principle would be for the Elastic-Agent. I saw some alerts for metrics and logs threshold but couldn't reach a sense for the way to approach.

If anyone could help on this it would be great!

Elastic Cloud 8.5.1

[Jack_Shirazi]

Not directly answering your request, but the Java agent has health metrics - you would need to enable them and the experimental flag. Then you can choose a metric that should always be non-zero and alert if the value is not >0 in some interval?

[SamuelSMendes (Samuel S. Mendes Soares)]

Thank you for the reply, that certainly seems very useful for my case. But I'm not sure as for how I would set it on my configuration.

I configure the APM directly unto the application conf file like this:

wrapper.java.additional.17 = -javaagent:C:\Program Files\APP SERVICE\elastic-apm-agent-1.43.0.jar
wrapper.java.additional.18 = -Delastic.apm.service_name=APP-SERVICE
wrapper.java.additional.19 = -Delastic.apm.server_urls=https://<host>apm.westus2.azure.elastic-cloud.com:443
wrapper.java.additional.20 = -Delastic.apm.secret_token=<token>
wrapper.java.additional.21 = -Delastic.apm.environment=test
wrapper.java.additional.22 = -Delastic.apm.application_packages=com.hp,com.hpe

Is there a specific flag I could add so I have these health metrics?

[Jack_Shirazi]

-Delastic.apm.agent_reporter_health_metrics=true
-Delastic.apm.agent_background_overhead_metrics=true