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   === Install and run APM Server
   
  -First, https://www.elastic.co/downloads/apm/apm-server[download APM Server] for your operating system and extract the package.
  +First, https://apm-server-snapshots.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.html[download APM Server] for your operating system and extract the package.
   
   In a production environment, you would put APM Server on it's own machines, similar to how you run Elasticsearch.
   You _can_ run it on the same machines as Elasticsearch, but this is not recommended, as the processes will be competing for resources.
  
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  [source,bash]
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  $ ./apm-server -e 
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  You should see APM Server start up.
  It will try to connect to Elasticsearch on localhost port 9200 and expose an API to agents on port 8200.
  You can change the defaults by supplying a different addresses on the command line:
  
  [source,bash]
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  ==== Install the Kibana dashboards
  APM Server comes with predefined Kibana dashboards for the APM data. To install the Kibana dashboards, run the following command:
  
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  $ curl -XPOST http://localhost:5601/api/kibana/dashboards/import -H 'Content-type:application/json' -H 'kbn-xsrf:true' -d @./_meta/kibana/default/dashboard/apm-dashboards.json
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  If you are using an X-Pack secured version of Elastic Stack, add `--user user:pass` to the command.
  
  .More information
  For detailed instructions on how to install and secure APM Server in your server environment, including details on how to run APM Server in a highly available environment, please see APM Server documentation.
  