Tracing data in Elastic APM¶

For nais applications running on-prem (dev-fss and prod-fss) you have the option to send telemetry data to Elastic APM in adition to Grafana. This guide will help you get started with Elastic APM for your application.

Enable auto-instrumentation for Elastic APM¶

Elastic APM can be enabled by setting the list of auto-instrumentation destinations in your nais application manifest.

spec:
  observability:
    autoInstrumentation:
      enabled: true
      runtime: "java"
      destinations:
        - id: "elastic-apm"

It is possible to send data to multiple destinations (such as grafana-lgtm) by adding more destinations to the list.

Service Environment¶

If you have multiple virutal environments for your application such ac q1, t2, or p, you can specify the environment in the OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES environment variable.

spec:
  env:
    - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
      value: "deployment.environment.name=q1"

Accessing the Elastic APM UI¶

The Elastic APM UI is available at logs.adeo.no and requires you to log in with your NAV account and by selecting the APM menu item.

From there you can select the application (or service as they are called in Elastic APM) you want to inspect.