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Getting Started with APM

Getting started with Elastic APM

First, create your Elastic Cloud Cluster

Go to Elastic Cloud (https://cloud.elastic.co and create an account and a deployment

Make sure you select the Hot/Warm template, which includes APM and is ready for Observability

Go to tutorial and learn

Then go to the tutorial and select the language you want to use. That is under /app/kibana#/home/tutorial/apm in Kibana

Sample Code

Download the sample code at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gmoskovicz/apm_gettingstarted/master/main.js which includes a sample NodeJs application with the APM Agent configured.

var apm = require('elastic-apm-node').start({
  // Override service name from package.json
  // Allowed characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _, and space
  serviceName: 'mysampleapp',

  // Use if APM Server requires a token
  secretToken: 'xxxxx',

  // Set custom APM Server URL (default: http://localhost:8200)
  serverUrl: 'https://xxxx.apm.us-east-1.aws.cloud.es.io:xxxx'
})

Run the prerequisites in your console. You will need to add the APM Node agent dependency, along with the elasticsearch NodeJS client to call the health API:

sudo npm install elastic-apm-node --save
sudo npm install @elastic/elasticsearch

Then, just run the application by running in your console node main.js

Go back to Kibana and check the traces

Now you can go to APM where the magic begins