Configuring APM Server

To configure APM Server, you edit the configuration file. For rpm and deb, you’ll find the configuration file at /etc/apm-server/apm-server.yml. Under Docker, it’s located at /usr/share/apm-server/apm-server.yml. For mac and win, look in the archive that you just extracted. There’s also a full example configuration file called apm-server.reference.yml that shows all non-deprecated options.

See the Config File Format section of the Beats Platform Reference for more about the structure of the config file.

The following topics describe how to configure APM Server:

Configure the output
Specify SSL settings
Load the Elasticsearch index template
Configure logging
Set up the Kibana endpoint
Load the Kibana dashboards
Set up Frontend support
Use environment variables in the configuration
Set up project paths

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