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Getting started

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Getting started

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Using Package Managers

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Install the APM agent for JavaScript as a dependency to your application:

npm install elastic-apm-js-base --save

Configure the agent:

import { init as initApm } from 'elastic-apm-js-base'
const apm = initApm({

  // Set required service name (allowed characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _, and space)
  serviceName: '',

  // Set custom APM Server URL (default: http://localhost:8200)
  serverUrl: 'http://localhost:8200',

  // Set service version (required for sourcemap feature)
  serviceVersion: ''
})

Using Script Tags

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Add a <script> tag to the HTML page and use the elasticApm global object to load and initialize the agent:

Please download the latest version of JavaScript agent from GitHub or UNPKG and host the file in your Server/CDN before deploying to production.

<script src="https://your-cdn-host.com/path/to/elastic-apm-js-base.umd.min.js" crossorigin></script>
<script>
  elasticApm.init({
    serviceName: '',
    serverUrl: 'http://localhost:8200'
  })
</script>

Currently our minified JavaScript bundle is about 16KB (gzipped).

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