# Kibana shows POST to intake API as part of transaction

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-post-to-intake-api-as-part-of-transaction/200149>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** nodejs\
**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-post-to-intake-api-as-part-of-transaction/200149 "2019-09-19T08:32:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andre\_Schade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andre_schade/32/54474_2.png) [@Andre\_Schade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Schade)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-post-to-intake-api-as-part-of-transaction/200149/1 "2019-09-19T08:32:35Z")

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**Kibana version** : 7.3.0

**Elasticsearch version** : 7.3.0

**APM Server version** : 7.3.0

**APM Agent language and version** : NodeJS, 2.16.2

**Browser version** :  
Doesn't matter..

**Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from source, etc.) and version**:  
Cloud Deployment.

**Fresh install or upgraded from other version?**  
Doesn't matter.

**Is there anything special in your setup?**  
Nope.

**Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior. Please include screenshots (if relevant)**:

I have an Elastic APM agent running inside of a Node.js app that is reporting POST request to the intake API in Kibana. This completely invalidates most of the transaction stats, especially % of transaction because ~90% of the transaction time is spent on this intake span.

Is there some way to not include this span as part of the APM transaction?

 ![01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/9/5999b7f80164167c949f38e541722d81c26e1536.png)

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**Author:** ![wa7son](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wa7son/32/21259_2.png) [@wa7son](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wa7son)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-post-to-intake-api-as-part-of-transaction/200149/2 "2019-09-19T13:12:42Z")

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Hi Andre

Welcome to the forum and thanks for notifying us about this bug.

It's a known problem that the Node.js agent sometimes reports a span for one of its own requests to the APM Server. We have a GitHub issue tracking it here:

> <https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-nodejs/issues/1168>

Best,  
Thomas

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**Author:** ![Andre\_Schade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andre_schade/32/54474_2.png) [@Andre\_Schade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Schade)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-post-to-intake-api-as-part-of-transaction/200149/3 "2019-09-19T13:42:05Z")

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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:** [October 10, 2019, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-post-to-intake-api-as-part-of-transaction/200149/4 "2019-10-10T09:42:11Z")

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