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.