kibana/x-pack/plugins/apm

Documentation for APM UI developers

Local environment setup

Kibana

git clone git@github.com:elastic/kibana.git
cd kibana/
yarn kbn bootstrap
yarn start --no-base-path

APM Server, Elasticsearch and data

To access an elasticsearch instance that has live data you have two options:

A. Connect to Elasticsearch on Cloud (internal devs only)

Find the credentials for the cluster here

B. Start Elastic Stack and APM data generators

git clone git@github.com:elastic/apm-integration-testing.git
cd apm-integration-testing/
./scripts/compose.py start master --all --no-kibana

Docker Compose is required

Testing

Cypress tests

node x-pack/plugins/apm/scripts/ftr_e2e/cypress_run.js

Starts Kibana (:5701), APM Server (:8201) and Elasticsearch (:9201). Ingests sample data into Elasticsearch via APM Server and runs the Cypress tests

Jest tests

Note: Run the following commands from kibana/x-pack/plugins/apm.

Run

npx jest --watch

Update snapshots

npx jest --updateSnapshot

Coverage

HTML coverage report can be found in target/coverage/jest after tests have run.

open target/coverage/jest/index.html

Functional tests

Start server

node scripts/functional_tests_server --config x-pack/test/functional/config.js

Run tests

node scripts/functional_test_runner --config x-pack/test/functional/config.js --grep='APM specs'

APM tests are located in x-pack/test/functional/apps/apm. For debugging access Elasticsearch on http://localhost:9220` (elastic/changeme)

API integration tests

API tests are separated in two suites:

• a basic license test suite
• a trial license test suite (the equivalent of gold+)

This requires separate test servers and test runners.

Basic

# Start server
node scripts/functional_tests_server --config x-pack/test/apm_api_integration/basic/config.ts

# Run tests
node scripts/functional_test_runner --config x-pack/test/apm_api_integration/basic/config.ts

The API tests for "basic" are located in x-pack/test/apm_api_integration/basic/tests.

Trial

# Start server
node scripts/functional_tests_server --config x-pack/test/apm_api_integration/trial/config.ts

# Run tests
node scripts/functional_test_runner --config x-pack/test/apm_api_integration/trial/config.ts

The API tests for "trial" are located in x-pack/test/apm_api_integration/trial/tests.

API Test tips

• For debugging access Elasticsearch on http://localhost:9220` (elastic/changeme)
• To update snapshots append --updateSnapshots to the functional_test_runner command

Linting

Note: Run the following commands from kibana/.

Typescript

node scripts/type_check.js --project x-pack/plugins/apm/tsconfig.json

Prettier

yarn prettier  "./x-pack/plugins/apm/**/*.{tsx,ts,js}" --write

ESLint

node scripts/eslint.js x-pack/legacy/plugins/apm

Setup default APM users

APM behaves differently depending on which the role and permissions a logged in user has. For testing purposes APM uses 3 custom users:

apm_read_user: Apps: read. Indices: read (apm-*)

apm_write_user: Apps: read/write. Indices: read (apm-*)

kibana_write_user Apps: read/write. Indices: None

To create the users with the correct roles run the following script:

node x-pack/plugins/apm/scripts/setup-kibana-security.js --role-suffix <github-username-or-something-unique>

The users will be created with the password specified in kibana.dev.yml for elasticsearch.password

Debugging Elasticsearch queries

All APM api endpoints accept _inspect=true as a query param that will result in the underlying ES query being outputted in the Kibana backend process.

Example: /api/apm/services/my_service?_inspect=true

Storybook

Start the Storybook development environment with yarn storybook apm. All files with a .stories.tsx extension will be loaded. You can access the development environment at http://localhost:9001.

Experimental features settings

To set up a flagged feature, add the name of the feature key (apm:myFeature) to commmon/ui_settings_keys.ts and the feature parameters to server/ui_settings.ts.

Test for the feature like:

import { myFeatureEnabled } from '../ui_settings_keys';
if (core.uiSettings.get(myFeatureEnabled)) {
  doStuff();
}

Settings can be managed in Kibana under Stack Management > Advanced Settings > Observability.

Further resources

• Cypress integration tests
• VSCode setup instructions
• Github PR commands
• Routing and Linking
• Telemetry