Connect to the APM Server

The APM Server is exposed with a Service. For information on accessing it, see 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, see 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, see the APM Server documentation.