Question about installing APM server on Windows Platform

[afan]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie here and trying to setup APM server on Windows platform.
ElasticSearch and kibana both were setup already and when I am trying to install the APM server, I found below error when I check the APM server status.

"No APM Server detected. Please make sure it is running and you have updated to 7.0 or higher."

apm-server service is up and running and may I ask how can I troubleshoot this issue please?
Many thanks.

Kibana version: 7.14.0

Elasticsearch version: 7.13.4

APM Server version: 7.14

[simitt (Silvia Mitter)]

Hi @afan ,
have you configured the Elasticsearch url, username, password etc. in the apm-server.yml? I suggest to check the APM Server logs for any indicators about the server not being able to connect to Elasticsearch as a next step.

[afan]

@simitt Yes I did configure the yml file as shown attached.

In terms of the log, I couldn't find anything related to APM under my elasticsearch folder (ie. ..\Elasticsearch\Logs).

Thank you.

[afan]

I could find the APM logs from C:\ProgramData\apm-server\logs but looks like no hints on not being able to connect to ElasticSearch.

[simitt (Silvia Mitter)]

Can you try to send some sample data to the APM Server and see if they get ingested into Elasticsearch?

You could download an example request body from example-intake-events and then send it to the APM Server. Something along the lines of curl -H "Content-type: application/x-ndjson" -H "Authorization: Bearer <you-apm-server-secret-token>" --data-binary @request-body.ndjson <your-apm-server-url>/intake/v2/events.

[afan]

@simitt sorry I am quite confused.
As I still do not have any APM agent has been setup right now, how can I sent those API intake to my APM server? I am lost in this step, thank you.