- Observability: other versions:
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.12
- Get started
- Observability AI Assistant
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Self manage APM Server
- Data Model
- Features
- How-to guides
- OpenTelemetry integration
- Manage storage
- Configure
- Advanced setup
- Secure communication
- Monitor
- API
- Troubleshoot
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Known issues
- Logs
- Infrastructure monitoring
- AWS monitoring
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- Configure projects
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Use Synthetics with traffic filters
- Migrate from the Elastic Synthetics integration
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics support matrix
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
- Uptime monitoring
- Real user monitoring
- Universal Profiling
- Alerting
- Service-level objectives (SLOs)
- Cases
- CI/CD observability
- Troubleshooting
- Fields reference
- Tutorials
- Monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Elastic Agent
- Monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Beats
- Monitor Google Cloud Platform
- Monitor a Java application
- Monitor Kubernetes
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with Elastic Agent
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with the Azure Native ISV Service
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with Beats
Step 1: Install
editStep 1: Install
editBefore you begin: If you haven’t installed the Elastic Stack, do that now. See Learn how to install the Elastic Stack on your own hardware.
To download and install APM Server, use the commands below that work with your system.
If you use apt or yum, you can install APM Server from our repositories
to update to the newest version more easily.
See our download page for other installation options, such as 32-bit images.
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/apm-server/apm-server-8.12.2-amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i apm-server-8.12.2-amd64.deb
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/apm-server/apm-server-8.12.2-x86_64.rpm sudo rpm -vi apm-server-8.12.2-x86_64.rpm
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/apm-server/apm-server-8.12.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf apm-server-8.12.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/apm-server/apm-server-8.12.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf apm-server-8.12.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
- Download the APM Server Windows zip file from the downloads page.
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Extract the contents of the zip file into
C:\Program Files. -
Rename the
apm-server-<version>-windowsdirectory toAPM-Server. - Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.
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From the PowerShell prompt, run the following commands to install APM Server as a Windows service:
PS > cd 'C:\Program Files\APM-Server' PS C:\Program Files\APM-Server> .\install-service.ps1
If script execution is disabled on your system,
you need to set the execution policy for the current session to allow the script to run.
For example: PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File .\install-service.ps1.
See Running on Docker for deploying Docker containers.