Only seeing CPU and Memory metrics in Kibana

[dobes_gf (Dobes Vandermeer)]

Kibana version:

7.7.1

Elasticsearch version:

7.7.1

APM Server version:

7.7.1

APM Agent language and version:

elastic-apm-node 3.6.1

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

docker / kubernetes

Fresh install or upgraded from other version?

Upgraded from earlier versions

Is there anything special in your setup?

apm-server:
  host: '0.0.0.0:8200'
  frontend:
    enabled: false
  rum:
    enabled: true
  kibana:
    enabled: true
    host: 'http://kibana:5601'
  ilm:
    setup:
      enabled: "true"
      overwrite: true
      mapping:
        - event_type: 'error'
          policy_name: 'apm-formative-policy'
        - event_type: 'span'
          policy_name: 'apm-formative-policy'
        - event_type: 'transaction'
          policy_name: 'apm-formative-policy'
        - event_type: 'metric'
          policy_name: 'apm-formative-policy'
        - event_type: 'profile'
          policy_name: 'apm-formative-policy'
      policies:
        - name: 'apm-formative-policy'
          policy:
            phases:
              hot:
                actions:
                  rollover:
                    max_size: '50gb'
                    max_age: '1d'
                  set_priority:
                    priority: 100
              warm:
                min_age: '7d'
                actions:
                  set_priority:
                    priority: 50
                  readonly: {}
              cold:
                min_age: '14d'
                actions:
                  set_priority:
                    priority: 0
                  freeze: {}
              delete:
                min_age: '30d'
                actions:
                  delete: {}
setup.template.settings:
  index:
    number_of_shards: 1
    codec: best_compression
output.elasticsearch:
  hosts: ['http://elasticsearch:9200']
  bulk_max_size: 2560
  workers: 2
queue:
  mem:
    events: 10240
logging:
  level: warning
  json: true

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

When I view metrics for a node.js process I only see CPU and memory metrics. However, the documentation indicates that many other metrics should / could be collected. I'm not quiet sure where to start debugging this, or to be honest if those metrics are currently even supposed to appear in kibana or if I'm supposed to query them myself.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run a node.js process with elastic-apm-node
2. Observe what metrics you see for that service in Kibana

[simitt (Silvia Mitter)]

Hi @dobes_gf,
as you mentioned, the system cpu and memory information is shown in the metrics tab. There is also the Time spent by span type in the transaction tab, that is based on collected metrics.

Additional nodejs specific metrics are currently not incorporated into the curated APM UI. They should however be collected, allowing you to query for them and build your own visualizations.

[dobes_gf (Dobes Vandermeer)]

Ah OK, thanks for clarifying that.