- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 7.15
- Kibana concepts
- Quick start
- Set up
- Install Kibana
- Configure Kibana
- Alerting and action settings
- APM settings
- Banners settings
- Development tools settings
- Graph settings
- Fleet settings
- i18n settings
- Logging settings
- Logs settings
- Metrics settings
- Machine learning settings
- Monitoring settings
- Reporting settings
- Secure settings
- Search sessions settings
- Security settings
- Spaces settings
- Task Manager settings
- Telemetry settings
- URL drilldown settings
- Start and stop Kibana
- Access Kibana
- Securing access to Kibana
- Add data
- Upgrade Kibana
- Configure security
- Configure reporting
- Configure monitoring
- Production considerations
- Discover
- Dashboard and visualizations
- Canvas
- Maps
- Build a map to compare metrics by country or region
- Track, visualize, and alert on assets in real time
- Map custom regions with reverse geocoding
- Heat map layer
- Tile layer
- Vector layer
- Plot big data
- Search geographic data
- Configure map settings
- Connect to Elastic Maps Service
- Import geospatial data
- Troubleshoot
- Reporting and sharing
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Alerting
- Observability
- APM
- Security
- Dev Tools
- Fleet
- Osquery
- Stack Monitoring
- Stack Management
- REST API
- Get features API
- Kibana spaces APIs
- Kibana role management APIs
- User session management APIs
- Saved objects APIs
- Index patterns APIs
- Alerting APIs
- Action and connector APIs
- Import and export dashboard APIs
- Logstash configuration management APIs
- Shorten URL
- Get Task Manager health
- Upgrade assistant APIs
- Kibana plugins
- Accessibility
- Release notes
- Developer guide
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Set up the APM app
editSet up the APM app
editAPM is available via the navigation sidebar in Kibana. If you have not already installed and configured Elastic APM, the Add data page will get you started.

Load the index pattern
editIndex patterns tell Kibana which Elasticsearch indices you want to explore. An APM index pattern is necessary for certain features in the APM app, like the query bar. To set up the correct index pattern, on the Add data page, click Load Kibana objects.

To use a custom index pattern, adjust Kibana’s settings or use the Kibana API.
Next steps
editNo further configuration in the APM app is required. Install an APM Agent library in your service to begin visualizing and analyzing your data!
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