Passing Java APM Agent settings in Docker - spring-boot

Question

I monitor my jar using Elastic APM Agent, i run these commands manually :
java -javaagent:../infrastructure/agent/apm-agent.jar \
-Delastic.apm.service_name=server \
-Delastic.apm.server_urls=http://${APM_HOST}:8200 \
-Delastic.apm.application_packages=package.coù \
-jar ./target/server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar &
Now , i want to pass these parameters using docker run , i create the image and i try with this command to pass these settings , but the application is not starting
docker run --name app -e CATALINA_OPTS='-Dspring.config.location=/usr/local/tomcat/application-recette.properties,/usr/local/tomcat/application.yml'
-e CATALINA_OPTS='-Delastic.apm.service_name=server'
-e CATALINA_OPTS='-Delastic.apm.server_urls=http://10.128.0.4:8200'
-e CATALINA_OPTS='-Delastic.apm.application_packages=package.com'
-d -p 9000:8080 image:v1
any idea to resolve this ?
Thanks

Answer 1

actually there are many reasons why your app not starting depending on how you setup and configured your ELK stack , but for me I did the following and it's working fine :
shipped application.jar and apm-agent.jar via Dockerfile and run them inside container :
FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine
COPY javaProjects/test-apm/target/test-apm-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar /app.jar
COPY elastic-apm-agent-1.19.0.jar /apm-agent.jar
CMD ["/usr/bin/java","-javaagent:/apm-agent.jar", "-Delastic.apm.service_name=my-cool-service -Delastic.apm.application_packages=main.java -Delastic.apm.server_urls=http://localhost:8200","-jar", "/app.jar"]
create image from this Dockerfile:
docker build -t test-apm:latest ./
run the created image :
docker run --network host -p 8080:8080 test-apm:latest
note my apm-server and ELK-stack was running on my host machine ,
I think if you do the same and make little changes to mach you environments it should work fine ,