# KIBANA APM dashboard homepage shows APM server running but I have not ran APM server on my machine so how is it detecting that APM server is running

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-apm-dashboard-homepage-shows-apm-server-running-but-i-have-not-ran-apm-server-on-my-machine-so-how-is-it-detecting-that-apm-server-is-running/154789 "2018-10-31T09:29:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![user\_elastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea666f/32.png) [@user\_elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/user_elastic)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-apm-dashboard-homepage-shows-apm-server-running-but-i-have-not-ran-apm-server-on-my-machine-so-how-is-it-detecting-that-apm-server-is-running/154789/1 "2018-10-31T09:29:11Z")

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Is this a bug ?

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-apm-dashboard-homepage-shows-apm-server-running-but-i-have-not-ran-apm-server-on-my-machine-so-how-is-it-detecting-that-apm-server-is-running/154789/2 "2018-10-31T16:02:26Z")

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@user_elastic,

Is there a way you can reproduce this?

If so, I would create a bug-report, including the steps on how to trigger this, here: [http://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new/](http://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new/)

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**Author:** ![user\_elastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea666f/32.png) [@user\_elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/user_elastic)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-apm-dashboard-homepage-shows-apm-server-running-but-i-have-not-ran-apm-server-on-my-machine-so-how-is-it-detecting-that-apm-server-is-running/154789/3 "2018-11-01T06:23:08Z")

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1. Start Elastic server
2. Start KIbana But do not start APM server
3. Go to APM section of Kibana
4. Under step 3 mention start the APm server .. do not start it
5. click on the button check APM server status .. it shows "You have correctly setup APM-Server" but the APM server is not running  
Hence I suppose it is a bug .. if not then let me know in case I m making some mistake

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-apm-dashboard-homepage-shows-apm-server-running-but-i-have-not-ran-apm-server-on-my-machine-so-how-is-it-detecting-that-apm-server-is-running/154789/4 "2018-11-29T06:23:10Z")

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