diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/apm/dev_docs/query_debugging_in_development_and_production.md b/x-pack/plugins/apm/dev_docs/query_debugging_in_development_and_production.md
index 0dcf20d3e2fed..5811306a05fda 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/apm/dev_docs/query_debugging_in_development_and_production.md
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/apm/dev_docs/query_debugging_in_development_and_production.md
@@ -14,4 +14,147 @@ There will be an `_inspect` key containing every Elasticsearch query made during
 
 ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/209966/140500012-b075adf0-8401-40fd-99f8-85b68711de17.png)
 
+## Example 
 
+When "Inspect ES queries" are enabed all API calls to the APM API will be include the query param `_inspect=true`. For the environments API the request / response will be:
+
+```
+GET /internal/apm/environments?start=<start>&end=<end>&_inspect=true
+```
+
+```json
+{
+  "environments": [
+    "production",
+    "testing",
+    "ENVIRONMENT_NOT_DEFINED"
+  ],
+  "_inspect": [
+    {
+      "id": "get_environments (/internal/apm/environments)",
+      "json": {
+        "size": 0,
+        "query": {
+          "bool": {
+            "filter": [
+              {
+                "range": {
+                  "@timestamp": {
+                    "gte": 1636918740000,
+                    "lte": 1636919672329,
+                    "format": "epoch_millis"
+                  }
+                }
+              },
+              {
+                "terms": {
+                  "processor.event": [
+                    "transaction",
+                    "metric",
+                    "error"
+                  ]
+                }
+              },
+              {
+                "range": {
+                  "observer.version_major": {
+                    "gte": 7
+                  }
+                }
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "aggs": {
+          "environments": {
+            "terms": {
+              "field": "service.environment",
+              "missing": "ENVIRONMENT_NOT_DEFINED",
+              "size": 100
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "name": "get_environments (/internal/apm/environments)",
+      "response": {
+        "json": {
+          "took": 10,
+          "timed_out": false,
+          "_shards": {
+            "total": 17,
+            "successful": 17,
+            "skipped": 0,
+            "failed": 0
+          },
+          "hits": {
+            "total": {
+              "value": 10000,
+              "relation": "gte"
+            },
+            "max_score": null,
+            "hits": []
+          },
+          "aggregations": {
+            "environments": {
+              "doc_count_error_upper_bound": 0,
+              "sum_other_doc_count": 0,
+              "buckets": [
+                {
+                  "key": "production",
+                  "doc_count": 27643
+                },
+                {
+                  "key": "testing",
+                  "doc_count": 960
+                },
+                {
+                  "key": "ENVIRONMENT_NOT_DEFINED",
+                  "doc_count": 63
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "startTime": 1636919683285,
+      "stats": {
+        "kibanaApiQueryParameters": {
+          "label": "Kibana API query parameters",
+          "description": "The query parameters used in the Kibana API request that initiated the Elasticsearch request.",
+          "value": "{\n  \"start\": \"2021-11-14T19:39:00.000Z\",\n  \"end\": \"2021-11-14T19:54:32.329Z\",\n  \"_inspect\": \"true\"\n}"
+        },
+        "kibanaApiRoute": {
+          "label": "Kibana API route",
+          "description": "The route of the Kibana API request that initiated the Elasticsearch request.",
+          "value": "GET /internal/apm/environments"
+        },
+        "indexPattern": {
+          "label": "Index pattern",
+          "value": [
+            "traces-apm*,apm-*",
+            "metrics-apm*,apm-*",
+            "logs-apm*,apm-*"
+          ],
+          "description": "The index pattern that connected to the Elasticsearch indices."
+        },
+        "hits": {
+          "label": "Hits",
+          "value": "0",
+          "description": "The number of documents returned by the query."
+        },
+        "queryTime": {
+          "label": "Query time",
+          "value": "10ms",
+          "description": "The time it took to process the query. Does not include the time to send the request or parse it in the browser."
+        },
+        "hitsTotal": {
+          "label": "Hits (total)",
+          "value": "> 10000",
+          "description": "The number of documents that match the query."
+        }
+      },
+      "status": 1
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```