IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Components and documentationedit
Elastic APM consists of four components: APM agents, the Elastic APM integration, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. Generally, there are two ways that these four components can work together:
APM agents on edge machines send data to a centrally hosted APM integration:
Or, APM agents and the APM integration live on edge machines and enroll via a centrally hosted Elastic Agent: