# Monitoring Docker application

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-docker-application/209196>\
**Category:** APM\
**Created:** [November 24, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-docker-application/209196 "2019-11-24T19:17:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gopikrishnan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gopikrishnan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gopikrishnan)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-docker-application/209196/1 "2019-11-24T19:17:33Z")

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Hi Team,

Kindly help me to understand whether elastic APM is capable of monitoring Docker application running on Linux machine and if yes then how to instrument it.

Thanks,  
Gopikrishnan

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**Author:** ![axw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/axw/32/28197_2.png) [@axw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/axw)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-docker-application/209196/2 "2019-11-25T01:16:50Z")

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@gopikrishnan yes, you can instrument applications deployed as Docker containers.

Generally speaking, the method is the same for non-containerised applications; you can find Getting Started guides in the agent docs: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/index.html).

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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:** [December 15, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-docker-application/209196/3 "2019-12-15T21:16:51Z")

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