How to install/enable Elastic APM dashboard in Kibana - elasticsearch

Question

I'm having trouble getting the APM "button" and dashboard to appear on the Kibana page. Yes, there is the "Add APM" button which tells you what to do, but it doesn't seem to actually work.
Actually, this is not entirely true - I was able to get the APM "button" and corresponding dashboard "installed" in my Kibana view, but I can't remember what I had to do to make that happen.
I believe that I have the various components (Elasticsearch, Kibana, APM server) installed and running. The "check APM server status" button indicates that it's been set up properly. If I click the "APM dashboard" button at the bottom of the page, it gives me a list of items, but I don't know what they are or whether they have anything to do with APM.
I am at a loss as to how to get APM to appear in Kibana. Does anybody have any ideas?
UPDATE:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/getting-started-apm-server.html
then
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/installing.html
then
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/apm-server-configuration.html
This seems to provide specific information I haven't been able to find elsewhere. The usage of apm-server setup <flags> seems promising. I'm not sure which flags (if any) I should use?

Answer 1

Try this official docker-compose set up:
version: '2.2'
services:
apm-server:
image: docker.elastic.co/apm/apm-server:7.7.0
depends_on:
elasticsearch:
condition: service_healthy
kibana:
condition: service_healthy
cap_add: ["CHOWN", "DAC_OVERRIDE", "SETGID", "SETUID"]
cap_drop: ["ALL"]
ports:
- 8200:8200
networks:
- elastic
command: >
apm-server -e
-E apm-server.rum.enabled=true
-E setup.kibana.host=kibana:5601
-E setup.template.settings.index.number_of_replicas=0
-E apm-server.kibana.enabled=true
-E apm-server.kibana.host=kibana:5601
-E output.elasticsearch.hosts=["elasticsearch:9200"]
healthcheck:
interval: 10s
retries: 12
test: curl --write-out 'HTTP %{http_code}' --fail --silent --output /dev/null http://localhost:8200/
elasticsearch:
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.7.0
environment:
- bootstrap.memory_lock=true
- cluster.name=docker-cluster
- cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled=false
- discovery.type=single-node
- ES_JAVA_OPTS=-XX:UseAVX=2 -Xms1g -Xmx1g
ulimits:
memlock:
hard: -1
soft: -1
volumes:
- esdata:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
ports:
- 9200:9200
networks:
- elastic
healthcheck:
interval: 20s
retries: 10
test: curl -s http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health | grep -vq '"status":"red"'
kibana:
image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.7.0
depends_on:
elasticsearch:
condition: service_healthy
environment:
ELASTICSEARCH_URL: http://elasticsearch:9200
ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS: http://elasticsearch:9200
ports:
- 5601:5601
networks:
- elastic
healthcheck:
interval: 10s
retries: 20
test: curl --write-out 'HTTP %{http_code}' --fail --silent --output /dev/null http://localhost:5601/api/status
volumes:
esdata:
driver: local
networks:
elastic:
driver: bridge