TLDR: Testing APM with Ansible

Dependencies:

• installed ElasticSearch, Kibana and APM, Mac instructions: https://github.com/elastic/homebrew-tap
• installed minikube
• installed kubectl
• installed ansible in a virtual env

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/active 

pip install -r requirements.txt

This project:

• Starts Elastic infrastructure
• Configure ansible and python
• run apm ansible test playbooks
• sets up minikube and a java app with apm enabled

python setup.py
python test-kube.py
python test.py
python tear-down.py

Generate Traffic for Java App

python python3 java_app/generate_traffic.py http://[cluster ip]:30001

Elastic Config

Apply this on your apm_transaction index and index template - your indexes may have different name

PUT apm*/_mapping
{
    "runtime": {
      "labels.manual_effort": {
        "type":"long"
      }
    }
}


PUT _template/apm_label_override
{
  "index_patterns": ["apm*"],
  "order": 99, 
  "mappings": {
    "runtime": {
      "labels.manual_effort": {
        "type":"long"
      }
    }
  }
}

Import the dashboad

dashboard.ndjson

TODO

• capture metrics e.g. business unit - manual effort ect.
• develop insightful dashbboards
• kubernetes feature gates: --feature-gates=EphemeralContainers=true