# Why does apm-server not display frontend information on kibana if apm javascript agent accesses requests from ingress **URL:** \ **Category:** APM\ **Tags:** rum\ **Created:** [March 30, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605 "2020-03-30T04:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![simitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simitt/32/106406_2.png) [@simitt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simitt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/21 "2020-04-15T05:07:31Z")
When using another output than Elasticsearch (your latest apm-server.yml shows you are using Kafka) you should ensure the index templates, ingest pipelines, etc. are loaded to Elasticsearch before starting to ingest data. You can do so by running ```auto apm-server setup -E output.elasticsearch.hosts= -E output.elasticsearch.username= -E output.elasticsearch.password= ``` Pass in all the necessary options in a similar way as showed above. The index template will only get applied to new Elasticsearch indices. ---
**Author:** ![wajika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@wajika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wajika)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/22 "2020-04-15T05:53:24Z")
@simitt Hello simitt, I have mounted apm-server.yml into the container [https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/z2Y4w6fNvk/](https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/z2Y4w6fNvk/) ---
**Author:** ![wajika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@wajika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wajika)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/23 "2020-04-15T11:51:15Z")
@simitt I found that the sourcemap is not stored correctly, will it affect the kibana app-apm display? "Unable to determine sourcemap storage, sourcemaps will not be applied" [https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/dBhK5C5ydJ/](https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/dBhK5C5ydJ/) ---
**Author:** ![simitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simitt/32/106406_2.png) [@simitt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simitt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/24 "2020-04-15T13:34:42Z")
If you do not provide any Elasticsearch configuration, sourcemaps cannot be applied. However that has no impact on displaying APM data in general in Kibana. Please see my post above on what you need to consider when working with an output different than Elasticsearch (Kafka in your case). ---
**Author:** ![wajika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@wajika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wajika)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/25 "2020-04-16T00:45:14Z")
I use kafka storage, how to configure sourcemap to elasticsearch? If multiple outputs are configured in apm-server.yml, apm-server cannot start normally What kind of marks are there in the apmserver log for apm-ui to work properly? @simitt apm-server: host: "0.0.0.0:8200" rum: enabled: true allow\_origins: '\*' source\_mapping.enabled: true elasticsearch: hosts: ["192.168.1.2:9200"] username: "elastic" password: "xxx" apm-server.kibana: enable: true host: "192.168.2.1:5601" username: "elastic" password: "xxx" protocol: http path: /kibana output.kafka: enable: true hosts: ["192.168.1.1"] topics: - topic: "apm-span" when.contains: processor.event: "span" - topic: "apm-transaction" when.contains: processor.event: "transaction" - topic: "apm-metric" when.contains: processor.event: "metric" - topic: "apm-error" when.contains: processor.event: "error" - topic: "apm-onboarding" when.contains: processor.event: "onboarding" - topic: "apm-soucemap" when.contains: processor.event: "sourcemap" #It's strange that I don't see the sourcemap index in kafka partition.round\_robin: reachable\_only: false required\_acks: 1 codec.json: pretty: true worker: 2 ---
**Author:** ![simitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simitt/32/106406_2.png) [@simitt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simitt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/26 "2020-04-16T05:40:37Z")
You can set an `elasticsearch` configuration directly in the sourcemap config; please refer to the docs for [how to configure elasticsearch for sourcemaps](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/configuration-rum.html#config-sourcemapping-elasticsearch). ---
**Author:** ![wajika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@wajika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wajika)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/27 "2020-04-16T05:44:04Z")
I have read the documentation and it requires output.elasticsearch.enable: true But I already send data to kafka ---
**Author:** ![simitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simitt/32/106406_2.png) [@simitt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simitt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/28 "2020-04-16T09:07:22Z")
From the [sourcemap config docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/configuration-rum.html#config-sourcemapping-elasticsearch): > Configure the Elasticsearch source map retrieval location, taking the same options as [output.elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/elasticsearch-output.html). This must be set when using an output other than Elasticsearch, and that output is writing to Elasticsearch. Otherwise leave this section empty. This means that if you use a different output than elasticsearch, you can still configure elasticsearch in `apm-server.rum.source_mapping.elasticsearch.*`. So that would mean you configure something like: ```auto apm-server.rum.source_mapping.elasticsearch: hosts: ["localhost:9200"] username: "foo" password: "changeme" output.elasticsearch.enabled: false output.kafka.enabled: true ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-apm-server-not-display-frontend-information-on-kibana-if-apm-javascript-agent-accesses-requests-from-ingress/225605/29 "2020-05-07T05:07:31Z")
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