Elastic APM, a open source application performance monitoring tool. This repo consists of Dockerfile and docker compose file to setup APM.

• Change secret token for your app. In apm-server.yml file, change somerandomstring. Note this token.
• build docker image: docker build -t elastic-apm-server:6.2.4 .
• run docker compose: docker-compose up -d. This will take some time as it waits for elastic-search and kibana service to start.
• check if all containers are up. docker-compose ps
• Kibana will run on port:8200 and apm-server on port:5601.
• port 8200 is used to visualize data, and port 5601 is to ping data from your app

• Refer this page to setup and this page to configure.

• Install python agent: pip install elastic-apm

• Add elasticapm.contrib.django to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings

• Add elasticapm.contrib.django.middleware.TracingMiddleware at first to MIDDLEWARE in your settings

• Example config in your Django settings:

  # Elastic APM
  APM_ENABLED = env.bool('APM_ENABLED', default=True)
  if APM_ENABLED:
      INSTALLED_APPS.append('elasticapm.contrib.django')
      # middleware should be first for best results
      MIDDLEWARE.insert(0, 'elasticapm.contrib.django.middleware.TracingMiddleware')
      ELASTIC_APM = {
          "DEBUG": True,  # monitor when app is in DEBUG mode
          'SERVICE_NAME': env('APM_SERVICE_NAME', default='My App'),  # name for your app
          # token is configured in APM server. Do not change
          'SECRET_TOKEN': env('APM_SECRET_TOKEN', default='somerandomstring'), # this is token you put in apm-server.yml file
          'SERVER_URL': env('APM_SERVER_URL', default='http://localhost:8200'), # this is kibana endpoint
          'CAPTURE_BODY': 'all'
      }

• Run python manage.py elasticapm check to check if everything is configured properly.

• Run python manage.py elasticapm test to send sample error to APM

Once your app is up and running, visit your SERVER_URL and navigate to APM

Note:

• If docker-compose fails with message: ERROR: for apm-server Container "*******" is unhealthy. ERROR: Encountered errors while bringing up the project., increase healthcheck retries count for kibana service in docker-compose file.

Version: - elasticsearch:6.2.4 - kibana:6.2.4

Inspired by: https://github.com/yidinghan/eak