ServerUrledit

The URL for your APM Server. The URL must be fully qualified, including protocol (http or https) and port.

SecretTokenedit

A string used to ensure that only your agents can send data to your APM server.

Both the agents and the APM server have to be configured with the same secret token. Use this setting if the APM Server requires a secret token, for example, when using our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud.

ApiKey ( [1.4] Added in 1.4. )edit

A base64-encoded string used to ensure that only your agents can send data to your APM server. You must have created the API key using the APM server’s command line tool.

VerifyServerCert ( [1.3] Added in 1.3. )edit

By default, the agent verifies the SSL certificate if you use an HTTPS connection to the APM server.

Verification can be disabled by changing this setting to false.

ServerCert ( [1.9] Added in 1.9. )edit

The path to a PEM-encoded certificate used for SSL/TLS by APM server. Used to perform validation through certificate pinning.

This can be specified when using a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is not in the trust store, such as a self-signed certificate.

FlushInterval ( [1.1] Added in 1.1. )edit

The maximal amount of time events are held in the queue until there is enough to send a batch. It’s possible for a batch to contain less than MaxBatchEventCount events if there are events that need to be sent out because they were held for too long. A lower value will increase the load on your APM server, while a higher value can increase the memory pressure on your app. A higher value also impacts the time until transactions are indexed and searchable in Elasticsearch.

Supports the duration suffixes ms, s and m. Example: 30s. The default unit for this option is s.

If FlushInterval is set to 0 (or 0s, 0ms, etc.) and there’s no event sending operation still in progress, then the Agent won’t hold events in the queue and will send them immediately.

Setting FlushInterval to a negative value (for example -1, -54s, -89ms, etc.) is invalid and in that case agent uses the default value instead.

MaxBatchEventCount ( [1.1] Added in 1.1. )edit

The maximum number of events to send in a batch. It’s possible for a batch to contain less then the maximum events if there are events that need to be sent out because they were held for too long (see FlushInterval).

Setting MaxBatchEventCount to 0 or a negative value is invalid and the Agent will use the default value instead.

MaxQueueEventCount ( [1.1] Added in 1.1. )edit

The maximum number of events to hold in the queue as candidates to be sent. If the queue is at its maximum capacity then the agent discards the new events until the queue has free space.

Setting MaxQueueEventCount to 0 or a negative value is invalid and the Agent will use the default value instead.

MetricsInterval ( [1.0.0-beta1] Added in 1.0.0-beta1. )edit

The interval at which the agent sends metrics to the APM Server. This must be at least 1s. Set this to 0s to deactivate.

Supports the duration suffixes ms, s and m. Example: 30s. The default unit for this option is s.

DisableMetrics ( [1.3.0] Added in 1.3.0. )edit

This disables the collection of certain metrics. If the name of a metric matches any of the wildcard expressions, it will not be collected. Example: foo.*,bar.*

You can find the name of the available metrics in Metrics.

This option supports the wildcard *, which matches zero or more characters. Examples: /foo/*/bar/*/baz*, *foo*. Matching is case insensitive by default. Prepending an element with (?-i) makes the matching case sensitive.

CloudProvider ( [1.7.0] Added in 1.7.0. )edit

Specify which cloud provider should be assumed for metadata collection. By default, the agent attempts to detect the cloud provider and, if that fails, uses trial and error to collect the metadata.

Valid options are "auto", "aws", "gcp", "azure", and "none". If this config value is set to "none", no cloud metadata will be collected. If set to any of "aws", "gcp", or "azure", attempts to collect metadata will only be performed from the chosen provider.