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APM version 7.16edit

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APM Server version 7.16.3edit

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No significant changes.

APM Server version 7.16.2edit

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No significant changes.

APM version 7.16.1edit

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Bug fixesedit
  • Agent configuration metrics are now sent to the metrics-apm.internal* data stream 6767
  • Improve logged message when APM Server blocks ingestion to wait for the integration to be installed 6796

APM version 7.16.0edit

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The APM integration for Elastic Agent is now generally available! This new APM ecosystem brings a number of new benefits to Elastic APM. See Switch to the Elastic APM integration to learn more about this change. Documentation for standalone APM Server has moved to the Legacy APM Overview and Legacy APM Server Reference.

Breaking Changesedit
  • Removed unused stacktrace/frame monitoring counters 5984
  • Removed unused support for top-level metricsets and metricset tags for RUMv3 6065
  • Removed apm-server.mode configuration, and "experimental" fields 6086
  • transaction.sampled is now only set for sampled transactions 6066
  • Unknown metrics are dropped when transaction.* or span.* are present in a metricset 6111
  • Removed metricset.period from service_destination metrics 6111
  • Removed http.request.socket fields 6152
  • Removed unused transaction.duration.{count,sum.us} metric fields 6180
  • Removed ProcessPending self-instrumentation events 6243
  • Removed warm phase from default ILM policy 6322
  • Removed unused transaction.breakdown.count metric field 6366
  • [preview] This breaking change applies to the experimental tail-based sampling feature. Changed apm-server.sampling.tail.events.* metrics semantics 6273
  • [preview] This breaking change applies to the experimental tail-based sampling feature. Removed apm-server.sampling.tail.storage_dir config 6236
Bug fixesedit
  • Use timestamp of original events for transaction/span metrics 6311
  • Populate the timestamp field for agent_config metricsets 6382
  • Query elasticsearch output cluster_uuid on startup 6591
  • Skip unhandled fields in bulk responses in the experimental Elasticsearch output 6631
  • Fix the format of @timestamp to include fractional seconds when using experimental Elasticsearch output 6646
  • NaN and +/-Inf values are now filtered out when translating OTLP metrics 6698
Intake API changesedit
  • faas, service.origin.*, and cloud.origin.* added for supporting function as a service fields 6161
  • context.message.routing_key was added to the intake API 6177
  • transaction.dropped_spans_stats was added to the intake API 6200
  • map incoming OTel spans from agent bridges to apm spans/transactions 6308
Addededit
  • The error.log.message or error.exception.message field of errors will be copied to the ECS field message 5974
  • Add histogram dynamic_template to app metrics data stream 6043
  • With apm-server.data_streams.enabled in standalone mode, the server now accepts and enqueues events while waiting for the integration to be installed 6130
  • We now collect span destination metrics for transactions with too many spans (for example due to transaction_max_spans or exit_span_min_duration) when collected and sent by APM agents 6200
  • Define index sorting for internal metrics data stream 6116
  • Index OpenTelemetry span events and Jaeger logs into a log data stream 6122
  • HTTP server errors (e.g. TLS handshake errors) are now logged 6141
  • Span documents now duplicate extended HTTP fields, which were previously only under span.http.*, under http.* 6147
  • We now record the direct network peer for incoming requests as source.ip and source.port; origin IP is recorded in client.ip 6152
  • Add an experimental endpoint for AWS Kinesis Data Firehose 6299
  • output.elasticsearch.experimental can be used to enable a new, experimental Elasticsearch output using the go-elasticsearch client 5970
  • Added support for gzip compression to the experimental Elasticsearch output 6449
  • When auth.anonymous.enabled isn’t specified and RUM is enabled (rum.enabled:true), auth.anonymous.enabled will be set to true 6607
  • Transaction metrics now also group by service.node.name, cloud.provider, cloud.region, cloud.availability_zone 6323
Deprecatededit
  • Setting service.version as a span tag (Jaeger) or attribute (OTel) is deprecated; use tracer tags (Jaeger) and resource attributes (OTel) 6131
  • Setting up Elasticsearch templates, ILM policies, and pipelines directly with apm-server is now deprecated. Users should use the integration package 6145
  • span.http.* fields are deprecated, replaced by http.*, and will be removed in 8.0 6147
  • Add deprecation warning for sampling.keep_unsampled=true 6285
  • processors.* config, which was never officially supported in apm-server, is now explicitly deprecated and will be removed in 8.0 6367
  • Support for uploading source maps to APM Server is deprecated, and will be removed in 8.0. Users should use the new Kibana REST API in conjunction with the integration package 6432
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