# No information going apm server/elasticsearch cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-information-going-apm-server-elasticsearch-cluster/171858
**Category:** APM
**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-information-going-apm-server-elasticsearch-cluster/171858 "2019-03-12T04:38:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Stephen\_O\_Sullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stephen_O_Sullivan)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-information-going-apm-server-elasticsearch-cluster/171858/1 "2019-03-12T04:38:34Z")
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**Kibana version** : 6.6.1
**Elasticsearch version** : 6.6.1
**APM Server version** : 6.6.1
**APM Agent language and version** : java 1.4.0
**Browser version** :n/a
**Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from source, etc.) and version**: docker
\*\*Fresh install or upgraded from other version?\*\*fresh
**Is there anything special in your setup?** For example, are you using the Logstash or Kafka outputs? Are you using a load balancer in front of the APM Servers? Have you changed index pattern, generated custom templates, changed agent configuration etc. Nothing special
**Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior. Please include screenshots (if relevant)**: Simple java jdbc to run a sql statement output results to system.out. But not seeing any information in elastic search. I have a spring boot app and that working fine. All this is running on my desktop and the ELK stack and database is running in docker containers.
Thanks for the help
**Steps to reproduce** :
1. java -javaagent:/Users/steveo/elastic-apm-agent/java/elastic-apm-agent-1.4.0.jar -Delastic.apm.service\_name=my-cool-service -Delastic.apm.application\_packages=com.datawhisperers -Delastic.apm.server\_urls=http://localhost:8200 -jar target/mavenproject2-1.0-SNAPSHOT-shaded.jar
2.
3.
\*\*Code:
package com.datawhisperers.mavenproject2;
```
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
/**
*
* @author steveo
*/
public class NewMain {
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO code application logic here
try {
Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(
"jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/drwho", "postgres", "sql");
Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select * from drwho_actors");
while (rs.next()) {
System.out.println(rs.getInt(1) + " " + rs.getString(2) + " " + rs.getString(3));
}
rs.close();
stmt.close();
con.close();
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | SQLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@Eyal\_Koren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eyal_Koren)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-information-going-apm-server-elasticsearch-cluster/171858/2 "2019-03-12T04:47:03Z")
Hi and thanks for using our agent 🙂
In order to trace a span (JDBC span in this instance), it needs to made within a traced transaction (see more in [our data model documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/get-started/current/apm-data-model.html)).
Since this is done from the Main class, there is no active transaction. If you want to test such code, you can use [our public API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/current/public-api.html#api-current-transaction) to create a transaction before and end end it after you make the DB query.
Alternatively, you can test your code from within a Servlet running on a [supported servlet container](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/current/supported-technologies-details.html#supported-app-servers).
I hope this helps,
Eyal.
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### Author:  [@Stephen\_O\_Sullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stephen_O_Sullivan)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-information-going-apm-server-elasticsearch-cluster/171858/3 "2019-03-12T05:10:44Z")
Thanks. That worked.
For reference: I added @CaptureTransaction & @CaptureSpan before the main method
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-information-going-apm-server-elasticsearch-cluster/171858/4 "2019-04-02T01:14:05Z")
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