@felixbarny Here are the debug logs,
2019-05-10 18:41:26.961 [apm-server-healthcheck] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.report.ApmServerHealthChecker - Starting healthcheck to http://localhost:8200/
2019-05-10 18:41:27.269 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.impl.payload.SystemInfo - Found Kubernetes pod UID: 1be1f96c-7325-11e9-bdde-023344833348
2019-05-10 18:41:27.270 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.impl.payload.SystemInfo - container ID is 85ff941bd2f32b8cd986cf9608d4236a123180d139564a8fbcd7f17e467e5fe3
2019-05-10 18:41:27.467 [main] INFO co.elastic.apm.agent.configuration.StartupInfo - Starting Elastic APM 1.6.1 as super-user-service on Java 1.8.0_201 (Oracle Corporation) Linux 4.4.148-k8s
2019-05-10 18:41:27.468 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.configuration.StartupInfo - active: 'false' (source: Environment Variables)
2019-05-10 18:41:27.468 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.configuration.StartupInfo - instrument: 'false' (source: Environment Variables)
2019-05-10 18:41:27.468 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.configuration.StartupInfo - transaction_sample_rate: '0.1' (source: //elasticapm.properties)
2019-05-10 18:41:27.468 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.configuration.StartupInfo - disable_instrumentations: 'none' (source: //elasticapm.properties)
2019-05-10 18:41:27.468 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.configuration.StartupInfo - application_packages: 'com.jay' (source: //elasticapm.properties)
2019-05-10 18:41:27.468 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.configuration.StartupInfo - log_level: 'DEBUG' (source: //elasticapm.properties)
2019-05-10 18:41:27.866 [apm-server-healthcheck] WARN co.elastic.apm.agent.report.ApmServerHealthChecker - Elastic APM server is not available (Connection refused (Connection refused))
2019-05-10 18:41:28.060 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.ElasticApmApiInstrumentation$StartTransactionInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.066 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.ElasticApmApiInstrumentation$StartTransactionWithRemoteParentInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.067 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.ElasticApmApiInstrumentation$CurrentTransactionInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.067 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.ElasticApmApiInstrumentation$CurrentSpanInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.067 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.ElasticApmApiInstrumentation$CaptureExceptionInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.067 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.TransactionInstrumentation$SetUserInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.067 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.TransactionInstrumentation$EnsureParentIdInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.068 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.TransactionInstrumentation$SetResultInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.068 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.AbstractSpanInstrumentation$SetNameInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.068 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.AbstractSpanInstrumentation$SetTypeInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.068 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.AbstractSpanInstrumentation$SetTypesInstrumentation
2019-05-10 18:41:28.068 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applying advice co.elastic.apm.agent.plugin.api.AbstractSpanInstrumentation$DoCreateSpanInstrumentation
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2019-05-10 18:41:28.078 [main] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.bci.ElasticApmAgent - Applied 47 advices
2019-05-10 18:41:57.761 [apm-reporter] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.report.IntakeV2ReportingEventHandler - Receiving METRICS event (sequence 0)
2019-05-10 18:41:57.761 [apm-reporter] DEBUG co.elastic.apm.agent.report.IntakeV2ReportingEventHandler - Starting new request to http://localhost:8200/intake/v2/events
2019-05-10 18:41:57.762 [apm-reporter] ERROR co.elastic.apm.agent.report.IntakeV2ReportingEventHandler - Failed to handle event of type METRICS with this error: Connection refused (Connection refused)