# I need to create an Alert in case APM stop working. Does Kibana have anything that could help with it? **URL:** \ **Category:** APM\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting, java\ **Created:** [October 30, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-create-an-alert-in-case-apm-stop-working-does-kibana-have-anything-that-could-help-with-it/346070 "2023-10-30T20:07:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SamuelSMendes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/samuelsmendes/32/104246_2.png) [@SamuelSMendes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SamuelSMendes)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-create-an-alert-in-case-apm-stop-working-does-kibana-have-anything-that-could-help-with-it/346070/1 "2023-10-30T20:07:07Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Shirazi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jack_shirazi/32/91641_2.png) [@Jack\_Shirazi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jack_Shirazi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-create-an-alert-in-case-apm-stop-working-does-kibana-have-anything-that-could-help-with-it/346070/2 "2023-10-31T14:35:49Z")
Not directly answering your request, but the Java agent has [health metrics](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/current/metrics.html#metrics-agenthealth) - 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? ---
**Author:** ![SamuelSMendes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/samuelsmendes/32/104246_2.png) [@SamuelSMendes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SamuelSMendes)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-create-an-alert-in-case-apm-stop-working-does-kibana-have-anything-that-could-help-with-it/346070/3 "2023-10-31T15:13:30Z")
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: ```auto 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://apm.westus2.azure.elastic-cloud.com:443 wrapper.java.additional.20 = -Delastic.apm.secret_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? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Shirazi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jack_shirazi/32/91641_2.png) [@Jack\_Shirazi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jack_Shirazi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-create-an-alert-in-case-apm-stop-working-does-kibana-have-anything-that-could-help-with-it/346070/4 "2023-10-31T18:09:34Z")
-Delastic.apm.agent\_reporter\_health\_metrics=true -Delastic.apm.agent\_background\_overhead\_metrics=true ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-create-an-alert-in-case-apm-stop-working-does-kibana-have-anything-that-could-help-with-it/346070/5 "2023-11-28T18:09:57Z")
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