Connect to the APM Server
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes extends Kubernetes orchestration capabilities to allow you to deploy and manage components of the Elastic Stack. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
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The APM Server is exposed with a Service. For information on accessing it, check How to access Elastic Stack services.
To retrieve the list of all the APM Services, use the following command:
kubectl get service --selector='common.k8s.elastic.co/type=apm-server'
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
apm-server-quickstart-apm-http ClusterIP 10.0.1.252 <none> 8200/TCP 154m
The operator generates an authorization token that agents must send to authenticate themselves to the APM Server.
This token is stored in a secret named {{APM-server-name}}-apm-token and can be retrieved with the following command:
kubectl get secret/apm-server-quickstart-apm-token -o go-template='{{index .data "secret-token" | base64decode}}'
For more information, check APM Server Reference.
If you want to configure API keys to authorize requests to the APM Server, instead of using the APM Server CLI, you have to create API keys using the Elasticsearch create API key API, check the APM Server documentation.