Manage Elastic APM Agent Config Centrally from Kibana
You can now centralize the management of your Elastic APM agent configurations directly from Kibana, eliminating the need to manually edit configuration.
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Monitor AWS Lambda Cold Starts with Elastic APM
AWS Lambda cold starts aren't just about latency; they're a direct signal that your function's execution environment is being re-provisioned, which can .
Cut Elastic APM Storage Costs with Hot-Warm-Cold Tiers
The biggest surprise about Elasticsearch's hot-warm-cold storage tiers isn't that it saves money, but that it allows you to increase data retention for .
Query APM Data Across Clusters with Cross-Cluster Search
Elasticsearch's Cross-Cluster Search CCS lets you query data spread across multiple Elasticsearch clusters as if they were one, but the real magic is ho.
Create Custom APM Transactions and Spans in Your Code
Creating custom APM transactions and spans in your code lets you instrument the parts of your application that standard APM agents might miss, giving yo.
How Elastic APM Uses Data Streams for Scalable Storage
How Elastic APM Uses Data Streams for Scalable Storage — practical guide covering elastic-apm setup, configuration, and troubleshooting with real-world ...
Correlate Distributed Traces Across Services with Elastic APM
The most surprising thing about distributed tracing is that it doesn't actually trace anything in the way you might imagine; it's a reconstruction of ev.
Instrument .NET Apps on IIS with Elastic APM Agent
Instrument .NET Apps on IIS with Elastic APM Agent — The Elastic APM .NET agent is surprisingly adept at instrumenting IIS applications, but its true pow.
Drop Unwanted APM Events with Filter and Sampling Processors
The most surprising thing about APM event filtering and sampling is that you're not actually losing data when you do it right; you're just intelligently.
Deploy Elastic APM via Fleet Agent Integration
Deploy Elastic APM via Fleet Agent Integration — practical guide covering elastic-apm setup, configuration, and troubleshooting with real-world examples.
Enrich APM Events with Geo-IP and User Context
APM events don't just represent what happened, but who it happened to and where they were, often revealing performance bottlenecks tied to specific geog.
Add Manual Spans to Go Apps with the Elastic APM Agent
Adding manual spans to your Go application with the Elastic APM agent allows you to instrument code paths that the automatic instrumentation might miss,.
Parse APM Log Fields with Grok and Regex Processors
Grok and regex processors aren't just for pulling fields out of logs; they're your primary tools for teaching your APM system to understand the unstruct.
Tune Elastic APM Server to Handle High Memory Pressure
Elastic APM Server is choking on memory and dropping requests under load. The APM Server is failing to keep up with the volume of trace data being sent .
Customize Elastic APM Index Templates and ILM Policies
Elastic APM data, by default, lands in indices like apm-<date>. While this works, you’re probably hitting a wall with retention, storage costs, or query.
Correlate APM Traces with Infrastructure Metrics in Elastic
Correlate APM Traces with Infrastructure Metrics in Elastic — practical guide covering elastic-apm setup, configuration, and troubleshooting with real-w...
Add Custom Fields to APM Events with Ingest Pipelines
APM events are just documents, and you can add custom fields to them with ingest pipelines just like you would any other document.
Configure Elastic APM Java Agent for Spring and JVM Apps
The Elastic APM Java agent doesn't just observe your JVM application; it fundamentally changes how your application's code is executed at runtime.
Read the Elastic APM Service Overview in Kibana
The Elastic APM Service Overview in Kibana is not just a dashboard; it's a diagnostic tool that actively reconstructs the flow of requests through your .
Deploy Elastic APM on Kubernetes with DaemonSet
Deploying Elastic APM on Kubernetes using a DaemonSet is a surprisingly straightforward way to get distributed tracing and application performance monit.
Build Elastic APM Latency Percentile Dashboards in Kibana
Elastic APM's latency percentile dashboards in Kibana are surprisingly effective at surfacing performance issues you wouldn't see with simple averages.
Correlate Elastic APM Traces with Logs Using trace.id
Logs are actually the output of your traces, not just a separate, parallel system. Let's say you've got an incoming request hitting your web server
Instrument iOS and Android Apps with Elastic Mobile APM Agent
Elastic Mobile APM is a surprisingly effective way to get deep visibility into your mobile app's performance and user experience, even down to individua.
Set Up Elastic APM from Scratch with Guided Onboarding
Elastic APM's guided onboarding streamlines the initial setup, but its true power lies in how it abstracts away the complexities of distributed tracing,.
Send OpenTelemetry Data to Elastic APM via the OTLP Bridge
The most surprising thing about sending OpenTelemetry data to Elastic APM is that you don't actually send it directly to Elastic APM; you send it to the.
Route Elastic APM Data to Elasticsearch or Kafka
Elastic APM data can be routed to Elasticsearch or Kafka, but the default behavior is to send it directly to Elasticsearch.
Instrument Laravel with the Elastic APM PHP Agent
Laravel applications, when instrumented with the Elastic APM PHP agent, gain deep visibility into their performance and behavior.
Instrument Django and Flask Apps with Elastic APM Python Agent
Django and Flask apps can feel like black boxes until you instrument them with the Elastic APM Python agent, which turns them into transparent systems w.
Instrument Ruby on Rails with the Elastic APM Agent
The Elastic APM Ruby agent is surprisingly good at automatically capturing a huge amount of performance data with almost zero configuration.
Add Real User Monitoring to Your Frontend with Elastic APM RUM
Elastic APM's Real User Monitoring RUM lets you see how actual users experience your frontend application, not just how your tests or synthetic checks s.
Configure Head-Based and Tail-Based Sampling in Elastic APM
Elastic APM's sampling is designed to reduce the volume of trace data without losing crucial insights into application performance.
Secure Elastic APM with Secret Tokens and API Keys
Secure Elastic APM with Secret Tokens and API Keys — practical guide covering elastic-apm setup, configuration, and troubleshooting with real-world exam...
Redact Sensitive Fields from Elastic APM Events
Elastic APM's agents can automatically redact sensitive fields from event data, preventing PII from leaking into your observability data.
Configure Elastic APM Server Output and Transport Settings
Elastic APM Server can send its collected data to multiple destinations, but it's not always obvious how to configure where that data goes or how it get.
Tag APM Services with Environments and Custom Labels
Tagging your APM services with environments and custom labels is how you make sense of your distributed systems as they grow.
Visualize Service Dependencies with Elastic APM Service Map
The Elastic APM Service Map visualizes the flow of requests across your microservices, showing you exactly which services are calling which, and how man.
Profile Slow Elastic APM Transactions Down to the Code Line
Elastic APM is great for seeing that a transaction is slow, but pinpointing the why at the code line requires a bit of digging.
Back Up and Restore Elastic APM Data with Snapshots
Back Up and Restore Elastic APM Data with Snapshots — practical guide covering elastic-apm setup, configuration, and troubleshooting with real-world exa...
Upload Source Maps to Elastic APM for Readable JS Stack Traces
Uploading source maps to Elastic APM transforms minified and mangled JavaScript stack traces into human-readable, source-code-level representations.
Reduce APM Data Volume with Span Compression
Span compression is a technique to reduce the amount of data generated by your Application Performance Monitoring APM system, primarily by eliminating r.
Monitor User Journeys with Elastic Synthetics and APM
Elastic Synthetics and APM together give you a powerful lens into how actual users experience your applications, not just how your application thinks it.
Trace Async Kafka and SQS Messages with Elastic APM
The most surprising thing about tracing asynchronous Kafka and SQS messages is how much of the "asynchronous" nature is an illusion when you're trying t.
Analyze Transaction Breakdown Metrics in Elastic APM
Elastic APM's transaction breakdown metrics reveal how much time is spent in different layers of your application, pinpointing the slowest components an.
Upgrade Elastic APM from 7.x to 8.x Without Data Loss
Upgrade Elastic APM from 7.x to 8.x Without Data Loss — practical guide covering elastic-apm setup, configuration, and troubleshooting with real-world e...
Alert on APM Thresholds with Elasticsearch Watcher
Elasticsearch Watcher can alert on APM transaction data when it breaches defined thresholds, but the real magic is how it correlates across dimensions y.
Instrument Node.js Express Apps with Elastic APM Agent
Instrument Node.js Express Apps with Elastic APM Agent — The Elastic APM Node.js agent can make your Express app's performance data appear in Kibana, bu...
Detect APM Anomalies Automatically with Elastic Machine Learning
Elastic APM's machine learning capabilities can detect anomalous behavior in your application's performance without you needing to define specific thres.
How Elastic APM Architecture Works with Fleet Server
Elastic APM's architecture, when integrated with Fleet Server, allows for scalable, centralized management of APM data collection and forwarding.